Red triangle pointed down

What 🔻 means

A red triangle pointing down. It means decrease, drop, or 'see below'.

People use 🔻 for falling prices or numbers and for a loss in a report. Captions use it to steer readers to details further down, such as a sign-up link or a full list.

Since the war in Gaza began, Hamas propaganda videos have used an inverted red triangle to mark targets, and the symbol has spread as a sign of support for Hamas. Some platforms moderate it for that reason. Context decides which meaning a post carries.

Facts

Red triangle pointed down 🔻 is an emoji in the symbols category, under geometric. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :small_red_triangle_down: or :red_triangle_pointed_down:. People also look for it with words like “down”, “geometric”, “pointed”, or “red”.

Timeline

1. 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)

Design history

Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.

symbols · Unicode 6.0