{{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: {{clear}}

== Red triangle == {{Commons category|Red triangles}} {{Commons category |Red triangular logos}}

=== Societal symbols === {{see also | #Politics | #Anti-fascism | #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 * {{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 {{nowrap| (see also: list of emojis) }} : {{Wiktionary-inline| 🔻 |🔻 U+1F53B}}

* Unicode block: 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''|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'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) * {{ annotated link |Red Wedge}}

=== Red wedge symbols in logos and artworks === * {{ annotated link |Network of Communists}} * Former logo of Revolutionary Left ({{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's "iconic red triangle" trademark, England's first registered trademark * Delta Air Lines' logo

=== Military and maritime === * 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

=== Politics === * 19th Century symbol for the 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) * {{ 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

=== 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 in Palestine

=== Awards and honours === <!-- both often awarded to civilian prisoners and irregular forces, so not strictly military --> * Auschwitz Cross (Polish WWII medal) * Political Prisoner's Cross 1940–1945 (Belgian WWII medal)

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

=== Disambiguation === * Black triangle (disambiguation) * Red star (disambiguation) * White Terror (disambiguation)

=== Articles === * 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}} {{Emoji navbox}}

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