# Red triangle

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{{Short description|Symbol}}
{{about|symbols}}
A '''red triangle'''
(upright 🔺 or 🔻 inverted)
or '''red wedge''' is used as a symbol with a variety of meanings, including:
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== Red triangle ==
{{Commons category|Red triangles}}
{{Commons category |Red triangular logos}}

=== Societal symbols ===
{{see also
| #Politics
| #Anti-fascism
| #Military
}}

* [Red triangle (badge)](/source/Red_triangle_(badge)), anti-fascist symbol partly derived from a Nazi concentration camp badge worn by political prisoners
* [Red triangle (Channel 4)](/source/Red_triangle_(Channel_4)), British television content warning system symbol
* [Red triangle (family planning)](/source/Red_triangle_(family_planning)), the symbol for family planning health and contraception services
* [Red triangle (Palestinian symbol)](/source/Red_triangle_(Palestinian_symbol)), a symbol used by al-Qassam (militant wing of Hamas) in Palestine and pro-Palestinian protesters worldwide
* {{section link| Donald Trump 2020 presidential campaign |Red triangle}} – advertisements banned on Facebook for using a red triangle symbol {{nowrap| (see also: {{section link| Trump 2020 |Political positions }}) }}

=== Internet and communications ===
{{commons category|U+1F53A}}
{{commons category|U+1F53B}}

* Red triangle [emoji](/source/emoji) {{nowrap| (see also: [list of emojis](/source/list_of_emojis)) }}
: {{Wiktionary-inline| 🔻 |🔻 U+1F53B}}

* Unicode block: [Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs](/source/Miscellaneous_Symbols_and_Pictographs)

: {{nowrap| '''U+1F53A''' 🔺 "UP-POINTING RED TRIANGLE" }}

: '''U+1F53B''' 🔻 {{nowrap| "DOWN-POINTING RED TRIANGLE" }} {{-}}

== Red wedge ==
<!-- Red wedge redirects here -->
{{ Commons category |Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge}}<!-- includes modern symbols derived from the poster -->
[[File: Klinom Krasnym Bej Belych.JPG |''[Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge](/source/Beat_the_Whites_with_the_Red_Wedge)''|150px|thumb|right]]<!-- not typical for a disambiguation page, but useful to help anyone who searched something like "red triangle poster" -->

The '''red wedge''' from [El Lissitzky](/source/El_Lissitzky)'s 1919 poster ''[Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge](/source/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](/source/Nikolai_Kolli) (an earlier artwork)
* {{ annotated link |Red Wedge}}

=== Red wedge symbols in logos and artworks ===
* {{ annotated link |Network of Communists}}
* Former logo of [Revolutionary Left](/source/Revolutionary_Left_(Spain)) ({{langx|es|Izquierda Revolucionaria}})
* {{ annotated link |Searchlight (magazine)}}
* {{ interlanguage link |Organisation of Communist Internationalists|zh|共产主义国际主义者组织}} ({{langx|ru|Организация Коммунистов Интернационалистов}})

== Upright red triangles ==

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

=== Commercial logos {{anchor| Upright red triangle logos }}===
* [Bass Brewery](/source/Bass_Brewery)'s "iconic red triangle" trademark, England's first registered trademark
* [Delta Air Lines](/source/Delta_Air_Lines)' logo

=== Military and maritime ===
* [Republican Guard (Iraq)](/source/Republican_Guard_(Iraq)) – Republican Guard Forces Command insignia
* {{ annotated link |Strafbataillon}}
* {{ annotated link |United States Coast and Geodetic Survey}}

=== Geography ===
* A symbol on the Brazilian state flag of [Minas Gerais](/source/Minas_Gerais)

=== Politics ===
* 19th Century symbol for the [eight-hour workday](/source/eight-hour_workday)
: Further: {{section link| Red triangle (badge) |Eight-hour workday}}
* {{ annotated link |National Mobilization}}

=== Other symbols ===
* The alchemical symbol for [Fire (classical element)](/source/Fire_(classical_element))
* {{ annotated link |Warning triangle}}

== Inverted red triangles ==
{{ commons category | Red triangles (political prisoners) }}
{{ commons category | Reappropriation of red triangles (political prisoners) }}
{{ commons category | People wearing a red triangle pin }}
{{see also|#Societal symbols}}

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

=== Commercial logos {{anchor| Inverted red triangle logos }}===
* {{ annotated link |BJ's Restaurants}}
* {{ annotated link |Canadian Tire}}
* {{ annotated link |Manifold System}}
* [Alvis Car and Engineering Company](/source/Alvis_Car_and_Engineering_Company)

=== Logos of NGOs {{ anchor |NGOs}}===
* {{ annotated link |YMCA}}

=== Media ===
* {{ annotated link |Antifaschistisches Infoblatt}}

=== Anti-fascism ===
{{for| additional political and memorial uses |Red triangle (badge)}}

* {{ annotated link |Association of Persecutees of the Nazi Regime – Federation of Antifascists}} (VVN-BdA)
* {{ interlanguage link |Associazione nazionale ex deportati nei campi nazisti |it}}
* {{ annotated link |Committee of Antifascist Resistance Fighters}}
* {{ annotated link |Liberté chérie}}

=== Military ===
* {{ annotated link |3rd (UK) Division}}
* The {{ interlanguage link | lt =Military Media| Military Media of the Qassam Brigades |ar|الإعلام العسكري لكتائب الشهيد عز الدين القسام}} ({{lang|ar|الإعلام العسكري}}) logo of the [Qassam Brigades](/source/Qassam_Brigades) in Palestine

=== Awards and honours ===
<!-- both often awarded to civilian prisoners and irregular forces, so not strictly military -->
* [Auschwitz Cross](/source/Auschwitz_Cross) (Polish WWII medal)
* [Political Prisoner's Cross 1940–1945](/source/Political_Prisoner's_Cross_1940%E2%80%931945) (Belgian WWII medal)

== See also ==
{{ Commons category |Nazi concentration camp badges}}

=== Disambiguation ===
* [Black triangle (disambiguation)](/source/Black_triangle_(disambiguation))
* [Red star (disambiguation)](/source/Red_star_(disambiguation))
* [White Terror (disambiguation)](/source/White_Terror_(disambiguation))

=== Articles ===
* [Brown triangle](/source/Brown_triangle) – used to mark victims of the <!-- name of the page "brown tangle" links to --> Romani Holocaust
* {{ annotated link |Pink triangle}}
* {{section link| LGBTQ symbols |Triangle badges of Nazi Germany}}
* {{ annotated link |P (Nazi symbol)}}
* {{ annotated link |Purple triangle}}
* {{ annotated link |Traffic warning sign}}
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