What is the difference between White Left-pointing Triangle and Normal Subgroup Of?

White Left-pointing Triangle is U+25C1 in the Geometric Shapes block. Normal Subgroup Of is U+22B2 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 Left-pointing Triangle?

The HTML entity for White Left-pointing Triangle (U+25C1) is ◁.

What is the HTML entity for Normal Subgroup Of?

The HTML entity for Normal Subgroup Of (U+22B2) is ⊲.

Are White Left-pointing Triangle and Normal Subgroup Of the same Unicode character?

No. White Left-pointing Triangle is U+25C1 (decimal 9665) and Normal Subgroup Of is U+22B2 (decimal 8882). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of White Left-pointing Triangle and Normal Subgroup Of?

White Left-pointing Triangle (U+25C1) encodes as E2 97 81 in UTF-8. Normal Subgroup Of (U+22B2) encodes as E2 8A B2 in UTF-8.

White Left-pointing Triangle vs Normal Subgroup Of

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 Left-pointing Triangle

U+25C1

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⊲

Normal Subgroup Of

U+22B2

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Property Comparison

Property	White Left-pointing Triangle	Normal Subgroup Of
Codepoint	`U+25C1`	`U+22B2`
Decimal	`9665`	`8882`
HTML Entity	`◁`	`⊲`
HTML Decimal	`◁`	`⊲`
HTML Hex	`◁`	`⊲`
UTF-8	`E2 97 81`	`E2 8A B2`
UTF-16	`25 C1`	`22 B2`
UTF-32	`000025C1`	`000022B2`
CSS Escape	`\25C1`	`\22B2`
JS Escape	`\u25C1`	`\u22B2`
Python Escape	`\u25C1`	`\u22B2`
URL Encoded	`%E2%97%81`	`%E2%8A%B2`
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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