Typed beside a number more often than drawn to depict any real object, this red triangle pointing up means a price or a stat is climbing. The color looks odd to eyes trained on red-for-loss, but Chinese, Japanese, and Korean finance apps use red for gains, so the shade actually fits half the world's convention.
What 🔺 means
A glossy equilateral triangle sometimes bordered with a black outline. Interpretations of the 🔺 Red Triangle Pointing Up emoji vividly shape-shifts from gruesome parts of history to mere warning signs.
How and when to use it
- You can use 🔺 to suggest an 'upward' heirarchy at the workplace, in life, in relationships, anything (refrain from making it capitalist or patriarchal, they're both disgusting).
- Few examples for the previous point - "If you start from scratch so you have a strong foundation 🔺" or "Its impossible to get anywhere with anybody with you cannot relate with the at the basic level 🔺".
- Any upward arrow in any shape, size, or form is bound to have a prominent appearance in positive economic contexts, and 🔺 is no different - "Really proud to see your economic growth 🔺" or "Gotta keep your stakes high and see who still stays🔺".
- Also, 🔺 can be part of the list of traffic signs and symbols. Given the popular command of the red color to be a sign of warning or 'Stop', you can use this emoji in the same way, literally and figuratively.
- Some instances supporting the previous point - "You better watch what you're doing with your life 🔺" or " 🔺 TRIGGER WARNING 🔺".
Other Names
- 🔺 Upward Red Triangle
- 🔺 Red Triangle Pointing Upward
- 🔺 Up Red Triangle
- 🔺 STOP Triangle
- 🔺 Warning Triangle
- 🔺 Prisoner of War Badge (during the Nazi times)
- 🔺 Uninverted Red Triangle
The lowdown
- Category
- Symbols › geometric
- Codepoints
U+1F53A- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.6
- Shortcodes
:small_red_triangle:- Keywords
- geometric, pointed, red, triangle, up
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.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🔺 Red Triangle Pointed Up or 💶 Euro Banknote?
Runs with a crowd
🔺 keeps company in red emojis — tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.