What is the difference between White Right-pointing Triangle and Contains As Normal Subgroup?

White Right-pointing Triangle is U+25B7 in the Geometric Shapes block. Contains As Normal Subgroup is U+22B3 in the Mathematical Operators block. They are distinct Unicode codepoints and may appear visually similar depending on the font.

What is the HTML entity for White Right-pointing Triangle?

The HTML entity for White Right-pointing Triangle (U+25B7) is ▷.

What is the HTML entity for Contains As Normal Subgroup?

The HTML entity for Contains As Normal Subgroup (U+22B3) is ⊳.

Are White Right-pointing Triangle and Contains As Normal Subgroup the same Unicode character?

No. White Right-pointing Triangle is U+25B7 (decimal 9655) and Contains As Normal Subgroup is U+22B3 (decimal 8883). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of White Right-pointing Triangle and Contains As Normal Subgroup?

White Right-pointing Triangle (U+25B7) encodes as E2 96 B7 in UTF-8. Contains As Normal Subgroup (U+22B3) encodes as E2 8A B3 in UTF-8.

White Right-pointing Triangle vs Contains As Normal Subgroup

Compare two Unicode characters side by side — encodings, HTML entities, escape sequences, and Unicode properties. Useful for distinguishing visually similar characters like hyphens and dashes, quotation marks, or homoglyphs.

▷

White Right-pointing Triangle

U+25B7

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⊳

Contains As Normal Subgroup

U+22B3

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Property Comparison

Property	White Right-pointing Triangle	Contains As Normal Subgroup
Codepoint	`U+25B7`	`U+22B3`
Decimal	`9655`	`8883`
HTML Entity	`▷`	`⊳`
HTML Decimal	`▷`	`⊳`
HTML Hex	`▷`	`⊳`
UTF-8	`E2 96 B7`	`E2 8A B3`
UTF-16	`25 B7`	`22 B3`
UTF-32	`000025B7`	`000022B3`
CSS Escape	`\25B7`	`\22B3`
JS Escape	`\u25B7`	`\u22B3`
Python Escape	`\u25B7`	`\u22B3`
URL Encoded	`%E2%96%B7`	`%E2%8A%B3`
Category	`Math Symbol (Sm)`	`Math Symbol (Sm)`
Block	`Geometric Shapes`	`Mathematical Operators`
Script	`Common`	`Common`
Bidi Class	`ON`	`ON`
Unicode Version	`1.1`	`1.1`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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