Red triangle

Short description: Symbol

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

Red triangle

Societal symbols

See also: § Politics, § Anti-fascism, and § Military

• 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
• Donald Trump 2020 presidential campaign § Red triangle – advertisements banned on Facebook for using a red triangle symbol (see also: Trump 2020 § Political positions)

Internet and communications

• Red triangle emoji (see also: list of emojis)

• Unicode block: Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs

U+1F53A 🔺 "UP-POINTING RED TRIANGLE"

U+1F53B 🔻 "DOWN-POINTING RED TRIANGLE"

Red wedge

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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

Red wedge symbols in logos and artworks

• Network of Communists
• Former logo of Revolutionary Left (Spanish: Izquierda Revolucionaria)
• Searchlight (magazine)
• Organisation of Communist Internationalists (Russian: Организация Коммунистов Интернационалистов)

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
• Strafbataillon
• United States Coast and Geodetic Survey

Geography

• A symbol on the Brazilian state flag of Minas Gerais

Politics

• 19th Century symbol for the eight-hour workday

Further: Red triangle (badge) § Eight-hour workday

• National Mobilization

Other symbols

• The alchemical symbol for Fire (classical element)
• Warning triangle

Inverted red triangles

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

Commercial logos

• BJ's Restaurants
• Canadian Tire
• Manifold System
• Alvis Car and Engineering Company

Logos of NGOs

• YMCA

Media

• Antifaschistisches Infoblatt

Anti-fascism

• Association of Persecutees of the Nazi Regime – Federation of Antifascists (VVN-BdA)
• Associazione nazionale ex deportati nei campi nazisti
• Committee of Antifascist Resistance Fighters
• Liberté chérie

Military

• 3rd (UK) Division
• The Military Media (الإعلام العسكري) 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
• Pink triangle – Symbol for the LGBTQIA+ community
• LGBTQ symbols § Triangle badges of Nazi Germany
• P (Nazi symbol)
• Purple triangle – Badge used in Nazi concentration camps to identify Jehovah's Witnesses
• Traffic warning sign