🔽

Downwards Button Emoji 🔽

🔼 Upwards Button flipped, a single small triangle pointing down and styled as a pressable button rather than the plain arrowhead ⬇️ Down Arrow shows. It scrolls or pages downward through a list, downvotes on forums that still use arrow-based voting, and marks a step down more broadly, one notch lower than ⏬ Fast Down Button's bigger drop.

What 🔽 means

A down-facing triangle, pretty much the opposite of the 🔼 Upwards Button. The 🔽 Downwards Button emoji signifies a reduction, decrease, or a de-growth in something. It may even suggest disapproval or a down-vote, as Reddit would call it.

How and when to use it

If you look closely, 🔽 is one of the prominent icons used in economy. For example, "There's been a sharp drop in the stock market for one of the country's top banks 🔽" or "We made lesser than last year 🔽".
Similarly, while indicating a deterioration in any other framework apart from economy and moolah, you could bring in the 🔽. For instance, "My tolerance is slowly but surely seeing a steady stoop 🔽" (wow, talk about alliterations) or "We've reduced the time we spend together 🔽".
Even if you disagree with someone or disapprove of something, you can use 🔽 (sounds a lot less rude, and puts your point across. Win-Win!). Like, "I don't exactly agree with your opinion 🔽" or "We have our differences and that's okay! But I still don't approve of your theory 🔽".
Since 🔽 is a 'button', this emoji would also symbolize elevator buttons for 'going down', literally and metaphorically - "Oh, boy. We're SO going down for this 🔽" or "Nope. Sorry, Satan. Hell's asking for you 🔽".
Sometimes 🔽 is used with an emphasis on its direction, thus clubbing this emoji into the navigational series of emojis. Like, "Check out the latest celebrity gossip here! 🔽".

Other Names

🔽 Down-Facing Arrow
🔽 Downward Arrow
🔽 Downward-Facing Arrow Button
🔽 Going Down
🔽 Reduction
🔽 Down Triangle
🔽 Down-Pointing Triangle
🔽 Down-Pointing White Triangle

The lowdown

Category: Symbols › av-symbol
Codepoints: U+1F53D
Emoji version: Emoji 0.6
Shortcodes: :arrow_down_small:
Keywords: arrow, button, down, downwards, red

How it looks across platforms

Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.