• 19 menu characters
  • Checked October 2026

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Copy ☰, the three line menu icon as a text character; the dots ⋮ and drop down marks follow.

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☰Trigram for heavenU+2630Ready to copy

19 menu characters. Tap any value to copy it.

19 menu characters. A character and its name both copy the character. A code copies the code.
CharacterNameCode pointAlt codeOption keysHTMLLaTeX
U+2630. Three unbroken lines. Unicode has no menu character, and designers often borrow this one, a sign from the eight trigrams of China. No Alt code; a web page can write it ☰.
U+2261. Three bars of one length: a math sign for things that are identical or congruent, and the other usual stand-in. Of the two stand-ins, the one with an Alt code. Alt+240, ≡ in HTML, \equiv in LaTeX.
U+2263. Four bars, for the button drawn with four lines in place of three. A math sign as well.
U+22EE. A column of three points: the slim form of the button, nicknamed kebab or meatball. LaTeX writes it \vdots and a web page ⋮.
U+22EF. A row of three points floating at the middle of the line, where … sits on the baseline. A web page can name it ⋯.
U+25BE. The little solid caret printed beside a drop-down list. A web page can name it ▾; \blacktriangledown in LaTeX needs amssymb.

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How it works

The menu icon, three stacked lines also known as the hamburger icon, has no character of its own in Unicode. The usual stand-in is ☰, U+2630. ≡ looks much the same and has an Alt code, 240.

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Which character to copy

☰ is three unbroken horizontal lines. ≡ is a math symbol, three bars of one length, with an Alt code and an HTML name, ≡. ≣ has four bars. ⋮ is the narrow version, three stacked dots, and ▾ is the small triangle beside a drop down menu.

Where the three lines come from

The lines are meant to look like lines of text in a small menu, and the nickname comes from an unintended likeness to a hamburger. ☰ is older than any screen: it is one of the eight trigrams from China, each made of three lines, broken or unbroken.

  • ASCII has no three line or three bars symbol; ☰ and ≡ both need Unicode.
  • No hamburger menu emoji exists. 🍔 is the food.
  • ㊂ is the nearest thing to a circle with three lines: a circled Chinese numeral three.

Questions and answers

Is there a Unicode character for the hamburger menu?

Not one made for it. The button is a picture and is not encoded as text. ☰, U+2630, and ≡, U+2261, look like it and are the characters people copy and paste in its place.

What is the Alt code for the hamburger menu icon?

Alt+240 types ≡, the closest character that has one. ☰ is in neither Alt code table. Of the other rows, the Alt codes are 31 for ▼ and 0133 for the ellipsis. In HTML, ≡ is ≡ and ☰ is ☰.

What is the three lines symbol called?

As a button it is the menu icon, the hamburger icon or the collapsed menu icon. As characters, ☰ is named Trigram for heaven in Unicode and ≡ is named Identical to.

What is the symbol with three dots called?

Stacked, ⋮ is a vertical ellipsis; as a button it has been called a kebab or meatball menu. Side by side, … is an ellipsis, which in an interface signals more options.

All 19 menu characters

Start here 6

  • Black down-pointing small triangle U+25BE. The little solid caret printed beside a drop-down list. A web page can name it ▾; \blacktriangledown in LaTeX needs amssymb.
  • Identical to U+2261. Three bars of one length: a math sign for things that are identical or congruent, and the other usual stand-in. Of the two stand-ins, the one with an Alt code. Alt+240, ≡ in HTML, \equiv in LaTeX.
  • Midline horizontal ellipsis U+22EF. A row of three points floating at the middle of the line, where … sits on the baseline. A web page can name it ⋯.
  • Strictly equivalent to U+2263. Four bars, for the button drawn with four lines in place of three. A math sign as well.
  • Trigram for heaven U+2630. Three unbroken lines. Unicode has no menu character, and designers often borrow this one, a sign from the eight trigrams of China. No Alt code; a web page can write it ☰.
  • Vertical ellipsis U+22EE. A column of three points: the slim form of the button, nicknamed kebab or meatball. LaTeX writes it \vdots and a web page ⋮.
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Three lines 3

  • Circled ideograph three U+3282. Three strokes in a ring: the Chinese numeral three, circled. The nearest character to a round menu button.
  • Square with horizontal fill U+25A4. A square ruled with horizontal lines: the three-line look inside a frame.
  • Square with orthogonal crosshatch fill U+25A6. A square cut into a grid, a stand-in for the waffle button that opens an array of icons.

Three dots 5

  • Horizontal ellipsis U+2026. Three dots on the baseline. In an interface an ellipsis signals more options. Alt+0133, Option+; on the U.S. layout, … in HTML, \textellipsis in LaTeX.
  • Presentation form for vertical horizontal ellipsis U+FE19. The ellipsis as vertical East Asian text sets it: three stacked dots at full width.
  • Tricolon U+205D. Three dots stacked close, a punctuation mark. Set three in a row and they pass for a grid of nine.
  • Triple colon operator U+2AF6. Three stacked dots filed as a math operator; in Unicode since version 3.2 (2002).
  • Vertical four dots U+205E. One dot more than the kebab: a column of four.

Drop-down marks 2

  • Black down-pointing triangle U+25BC. The same caret at full size, one of the PC graphics characters: Alt+31.
  • Down arrowhead U+2304. An open arrowhead pointing down, the thin chevron form of the drop-down mark.

Not a menu 3

  • Hamburger U+1F354. The sandwich the button is nicknamed for. An emoji of food; no emoji shows a menu button.
  • Not identical to U+2262. The three bars with a stroke through them: a math sign that says two things differ. ≢ in HTML.
  • Trigram for earth U+2637. From the same set of eight as ☰, with every line broken: six short dashes, which read as a pattern and not as a menu.

How this list was compiled: Names, and the code points they belong to, are checked against UnicodeData.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt), and printed in sentence case. Notes that begin Unicode's note quote NamesList.txt of the same version (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/NamesList.txt); the version a character was added in is from DerivedAge.txt (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/DerivedAge.txt), block names are from Blocks.txt, and the years are from https://www.unicode.org/history/publicationdates.html. Alt codes are from the code page 437 table (https://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/MICSFT/PC/CP437.TXT), the PC graphics table for codes 1 to 31 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/MISC/IBMGRAPH.TXT) and the code page 1252 table (https://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/MICSFT/WINDOWS/CP1252.TXT). Option keys are those of the U.S. keyboard layout as CLDR records it (https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/release-42/keyboards/osx/en-t-k0-osx.xml); other layouts differ. HTML entity names are from https://html.spec.whatwg.org/entities.json. LaTeX macros are listed only when LaTeX's own fontdef.dtx, ltoutenc.dtx or utf8ienc.dtx (https://github.com/latex3/latex2e/tree/develop/base) or the amssymb source (https://ctan.org/pkg/amsfonts) defines them, matched to a code point through unicode-math-table.tex (https://github.com/latex3/unicode-math). Compose sequences are from the X.org en_US.UTF-8 Compose file (https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libx11/-/blob/master/nls/en_US.UTF-8/Compose.pre). The menu button is not a character in Unicode; the rows are the characters used in its place. That it is not encoded, the characters designers borrow for the three-line, three-dot, ellipsis and waffle buttons, what the three lines stand for, and where the nickname comes from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamburger_button. The trigrams: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagua. The math use of the three bars: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_bar. All read on 2026-10-02 and restated in this site's own words. The framed, circled and drop-down rows, the Start here group and the order are this site's own choice. Licence: own work (facts from the Unicode Character Database, Unicode License v3, and from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0, restated in this site's own words; aliases and notes marked as Unicode's are quoted from NamesList.txt, Copyright © 1991-2026 Unicode, Inc., https://www.unicode.org/license.txt)

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