Downwards White Arrow Within Triangle Arrowhead 🢗
Usage snapshot:
- Arrows commonly indicate direction and navigation cues in interfaces and documents.
- Points downward; may indicate moving down a list or decreasing a value.
History & usage: The character depicts DOWNWARDS WHITE ARROW WITHIN TRIANGLE ARROWHEAD. It signals direction in interfaces and documents and supports navigation cues. In practice it can indicate move down a list, go to the next section, or reveal more items below. It may show decreasing values or steps that go downward. In a menu it marks the down option or a scroll action. When used in guides, it helps readers follow a flow from top to bottom. It also can serve as a backward cue in some layouts when paired with other arrows to show movement through content. Cross‑platform it keeps a similar look and screen readers can announce it clearly. It remains accessible when text captions describe its direction and action.
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Technical details
- Codepoint:
U+1F897 - General Category:
So - Age:
7.0 - Bidi Class:
ON - Block:
Supplemental Arrows-C - Script:
Common - UTF-8:
F0 9F A2 97 - UTF-16:
D83E DC97 - UTF-32:
0001F897 - HTML dec:
🢗 - HTML hex:
🢗 - JS escape:
\u{1F897} - Python \N{}:
\N{DOWNWARDS WHITE ARROW WITHIN TRIANGLE ARROWHEAD} - Python \U:
\U0001F897 - URL-encoded:
%F0%9F%A2%97 - CSS escape:
\1F897
How to type / insert
Fast copy: click the Copy button near the top of this page.
By codepoint: in many editors and IDEs, you can insert via the Unicode code U+1F897 or a built‑in character picker.
HTML: use the numeric entity 🢗 (hex) or 🢗 (decimal) when an HTML entity is needed.
Compatibility & troubleshooting
Font support: if the symbol does not render, the current font likely lacks this codepoint. Choose a font with broad Unicode coverage or allow a fallback font.
Web pages: ensure your CSS font stack includes a general fallback; avoid relying on images for common symbols to preserve accessibility and copyability.