Red triangle

A red triangle (upright 🔺 or 🔻 inverted) or red wedge is used as a symbol with a variety of meanings, including:

Red triangle

Societal symbols

• Red triangle (badge), anti-fascist symbol partly derived from a Nazi concentration camp badge worn by political prisoners
• Red triangle (Channel 4), British television content warning system symbol
• Red triangle (family planning), the symbol for family planning health and contraception services
• Red triangle (Palestinian symbol), a symbol used by al-Qassam (militant wing of Hamas) in Palestine and pro-Palestinian protesters worldwide
• – advertisements banned on Facebook for using a red triangle symbol

Internet and communications

• Red triangle emoji

• Unicode block: Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs

U+1F53B 🔻

Red wedge

The red wedge from El Lissitzky's 1919 poster Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge has been used in many artworks and political symbols.

Other artworks and artists

• The Red Wedge – 1918 sculpture by Nikolai Kolli (an earlier artwork)

Red wedge symbols in logos and artworks

• Former logo of Revolutionary Left ()
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Upright red triangles

An upward-pointing red triangle has been used to represent:

Commercial logos

• Bass Brewery's "iconic red triangle" trademark, England's first registered trademark

Military and maritime

• Republican Guard (Iraq) – Republican Guard Forces Command insignia

Geography

• A symbol on the Brazilian state flag of Minas Gerais

Politics

• 19th Century symbol for the eight-hour workday

Further:

Other symbols

• The alchemical symbol for Fire (classical element)

Inverted red triangles

A downward-pointing red triangle has been used to represent:

Commercial logos

• Alvis Car and Engineering Company

Logos of NGOs

Media

Anti-fascism

• (VVN-BdA)

Military

• The () logo of the Qassam Brigades in Palestine

Awards and honours

• Auschwitz Cross (Polish WWII medal)
• Political Prisoner's Cross 1940–1945 (Belgian WWII medal)

See also

Disambiguation

• Black triangle (disambiguation)
• Red star (disambiguation)
• White Terror (disambiguation)

Articles

• Brown triangle – used to mark victims of the Romani Holocaust