Red triangle

A red triangle (upright 🔺 or 🔻 inverted) or red wedge may refer to:

Red triangle

Nature and geography

• Red Triangle (Pacific Ocean), a shark-infested Pacific Ocean region off the northern California coast
• Red triangle slug, a species of land slug from Australia
• The Red Triangle is an area of Puebla state known for huachicolero activity (organized fuel theft)

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
• Red Triangle Day was a fundraising initiative by the YMCA during World War One

Internet and communications

• Red triangle emoji (see also: list of emojis)
• Unicode block: Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs

• U+1F53A 🔺 "UP-POINTING RED TRIANGLE"

Media related to U+1F53A at Wikimedia Commons

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

The dictionary definition of 🔻 U+1F53B at Wiktionary

Media related to U+1F53B at Wikimedia Commons

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

Fiction

• "The Red Triangle Circus" – is a fictional gang in the film Batman Returns.
• "Red Triangle Thing" – is another name for Pyramid Head from the video game Silent Hill 2.

Commerce and industry

See also: § Upright red triangle logos, and § Inverted red triangle logos

• Red Triangle is the parent company of the Alvis Car and Engineering Company
• Red Triangle (rubber factory) [ru; pl]
• Media related to Red triangular logos at Wikimedia Commons

Red wedge

Media related to Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge at Wikimedia Commons

Beat the Whites with the 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 – British left-wing musical collective of the 1980s

Red wedge symbols in logos and artworks

• Network of Communists – Italian political network, founded in 1998
• Former logo of Revolutionary Left

Spanish: Izquierda Revolucionaria

• Searchlight (magazine) – British magazine
• Organisation of Communist Internationalists [zh]

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 – Military penal unit of the Wehrmacht
• United States Coast and Geodetic Survey – Former U.S. government scientific agency

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 – Political party in Brazil

Other symbols

• The alchemical symbol for Fire (classical element)
• Warning triangle – Marker used to warn motorists about temporary road hazards

Inverted red triangles

Media related to Red triangles (political prisoners) at Wikimedia Commons

See also: § Societal symbols

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

Commercial logos

• BJ's Restaurants – American restaurant chain
• Canadian Tire – Canadian retail company
• Manifold System – Geographic information system software

Logos of NGOs

• YMCA – Worldwide youth organization

Media

• Antifaschistisches Infoblatt – Antifascist magazine in Germany

Anti-fascism

For additional political and memorial uses, see Red triangle (badge).

• Association of Persecutees of the Nazi Regime – Federation of Antifascists – Political confederation in Germany (VVN-BdA)
• Associazione nazionale ex deportati nei campi nazisti  [it]
• Committee of Antifascist Resistance Fighters – Organization in East Germany, 1953–1990
• Liberté chérie – Masonic Lodge

Military

• 3rd (UK) Division – Armoured division of the British Army
• The Military Media [ar] (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)

Wikimedia Commons

• Media related to Reappropriation of red triangles (political prisoners) at Wikimedia Commons
• Media related to People wearing a red triangle pin at Wikimedia Commons

See also

Disambiguation

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

Articles

• Brown triangle – used to mark victims of the Romani Holocaust
• Pink triangle – Symbol for the LGBTQIA+ community

and other LGBTQ symbols § Triangle badges of Nazi Germany

• P (Nazi symbol) – Sign for Polish workers during the NS-Regime in Nazi Germany
• Purple triangle – Badge used in Nazi concentration camps to identify Jehovah's Witnesses