How to type Triangular Bullet
To type Triangular Bullet (‣), press Alt + 8227 on Windows, holding Alt while typing the digits on the numeric keypad, or write ‣ in HTML. On any system you can copy it from this page, or enter its codepoint U+2023 directly: Ctrl+Shift+U then 2023 on Linux, or 2023 then Alt+X in Microsoft Word.
Triangular Bullet
- Copy it
- Unicode
- U+2023
- Windows
- Alt + 8227 needs regedit
| Where | Shortcut | How |
|---|---|---|
| Windows | Alt + 8227 | Above 255, so Windows will not accept it as typed. Copy the character instead. |
| Mac | N/A | Press the keys together. |
| HTML | ‣ | Paste this into HTML source. |
| Unicode | U+2023 | TRIANGULAR BULLET |
Other punctuation symbols
‣ lives in the General Punctuation block (U+2000-U+206F), dashes, quotation marks, spaces and reference marks used across languages. Within Unicode it is classified as Po, a punctuation mark.
What Unicode says about Triangular Bullet
The code chart points from ‣ to end of proof (U+220E) and black right-pointing small triangle (U+25B8). These are the characters the standard thinks you might have meant instead, which makes them the ones worth checking when Triangular Bullet looks nearly right but not quite.
How Triangular Bullet behaves in software
‣ takes one column in a terminal. It carries no direction of its own, so in a line that mixes English with Arabic or Hebrew it takes the direction of the text around it rather than forcing one.
Every way to write Triangular Bullet
| Form | Value |
|---|---|
| Codepoint | U+2023 |
| Decimal | 8227 |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 80 A3 |
| UTF-16 bytes | 20 23 |
| HTML entity | ‣ |
| HTML numeric | ‣ or ‣ |
| CSS | \2023 |
| JavaScript | \u2023 |
| Python | \u2023 |
| URL-encoded | %E2%80%A3 |
| SVG | 2023.svg · (SIL Open Font License) |
If ‣ arrives as ‣
Its three UTF-8 bytes E2 80 A3 are being read one at a time as Windows-1252. The text is undamaged; the reader has to be told it is UTF-8.