Downwards button Emoji

Symbols

A downward-pointing red triangle encased within a blue square button. The design mimics the physical navigation controls found on early media players and remote controls.

Usage Context

Used to signal a downward direction, indicate a collapse of content, or represent the action of scrolling to the bottom of a page. It is the logical opposite of the 🔼 button and is often grouped with other directional UI icons like ◀️ or ▶️.

History

This icon traces its roots back to the standard button layouts on VCRs and cassette players, which used similar triangular arrows to dictate playback direction. It was officially added to the Unicode character set in 2010 to help standardize navigation controls across mobile operating systems.

Details

Glyph

🔽

Unicode

U+1F53D

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f53d:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDD3D;

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category Symbols

Subcategory av-symbol

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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