🔺Red Triangle Pointed Up Emoji
Generally, the 🔺 emoji means an increase or upward movement. People use it to show something is going up, whether it’s a number, a feeling, or a situation.
The red triangle emoji, often called “upward pointing triangle,” has a few different meanings.
- Unicode
- U+1F53A
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :small_red_triangle:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🔺 Red Triangle Pointed Up emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
Red Triangle Pointed Up emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F53A. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 9.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Facebook, Messenger
Open-source, design systems
Galaxy, One UI
Windows, Teams, Fluent
WhatsApp on Android
Slack, Discord themes
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Red Triangle Pointed Up emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :small_red_triangle:.
In your code
Escapes for the languages people actually paste this into. Every one of them produces the same character, and that character is U+1F53A.
How to type the 🔺 Red Triangle Pointed Up emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
Red Triangle Pointed Up emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the red triangle pointed up as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Red Triangle Pointed Up emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around red triangle pointed up for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with 🔺, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
What 🔺 means from a girl or a guy
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
What 🔺 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
The character is the same everywhere, but the artwork and the reading of it change from app to app.
🔺 vs 🔴 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Red Triangle Pointed Up
Code: U+1F53A · added 2010
Shortcode: :small_red_triangle:
Generally, the 🔺 emoji means an increase or upward movement.
Unicode name: Red Circle
Code: U+1F534 · added 2010
Shortcode: :red_circle:
Generally, the red circle means something is wrong, needs attention, or is a warning.
Where the 🔺 Red Triangle Pointed Up emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time — U+1F53A never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
🔺 existed there as
KDDI au E55A.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Red Triangle Pointed Up was approved as U+1F53A and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 🔺 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.