Abacus Emoji
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What does the Abacus emoji mean?
1
An ancient Chinese counting tool made of bright red, green, blue and yellow beads: calculations were simply done by sliding the beads along the frame.
2
Here’s a schematic depiction of an ancient calculating tool—the abacus. You could still spot these in shops in the 1990s: a wooden frame with metal rods threaded with colored beads.
In correspondence, this smiley face can hint at something to do with calculation or mathematics. Figuratively, it can also suggest an ancient technology or methodology.
Apple Name
- 🧮 Abacus
Unicode Name
- 🧮 Abacus
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
Download the Abacus emoji
Vector file from the Noto Emoji set by Google, licence CC BY 4.0.
🧮 Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+1F9EE
Shortcodes
- works in Github, Slack, Emojipedia, Discord
For developers
| URL escape code | %F0%9F%A7%AE |
| Punycode | xn--4v9h |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | F0 9F A7 AE |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | \uD83E\uDDEE |
| C, C++, Python | \U0001f9ee |
| CSS | \01F9EE |
| PHP, Ruby | \u{1F9EE} |
| Perl | \x{1F9EE} |
| HTML hex | 🧮 |
| HTML dec | 🧮 |