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🔻 Red triangle pointed down
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🔻 Emoji meaning
Downward movement, decline, lowering, completion, grounding.
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🔻 Meaning
I'm coming down with the elevator! We associate the color red with passion but also with aggression. In China, red is the color of luck and fortune. The V-shape of the triangle with the tip pointing downwards symbolizes descent or danger.
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Commonly confused with
Color Variant
Up-pointing red triangle vs down-pointing red triangle; both directional indicators for up vs down.
Down-pointing red triangle vs downwards arrow; both used to show decrease or going down.
Emoji History
Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexiconFirst included
The emoji “Red triangle pointed down” was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and added to Emoji 0.6 .
In the release of Emoji 16.0 and Unicode 16.0 in 2024 there was 1 change.
Keywords changed
Keywords added
+ pointed + triangle
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- red triangle pointed down
In the release of Emoji 5.0 and Unicode 10.0 in 2017 there was 1 change.
Keywords changed
Keywords added
+ red triangle pointed down
In the release of Emoji 3.0 and Unicode 9.0 in 2016 there was 1 change.
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+ down + geometric + red
