Balance Scale Emoji
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What does the Balance Scale emoji mean?
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A gleaming golden balance scale, a timeless emblem of justice and the law.
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This antique balance, with two pans suspended from a beam, is commonly used in the judicial system, symbolizing decisions reached solely on the strength of the arguments presented, without outside influence.
A symbol of justice, wisdom, and prudence. It can also be used literally when you need to weigh something to determine its mass.
Also Known As
- ⚖️ Scales of Justice
Apple Name
- ⚖️ Scales
Unicode Name
- ⚖️ Scales
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
Download the Balance Scale emoji
Vector file from the Noto Emoji set by Google, licence CC BY 4.0.
⚖️ Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+2696 U+FE0F
Shortcodes
- works in Github, Emojipedia
- works in Slack, Discord
For developers
| URL escape code | %E2%9A%96%EF%B8%8F |
| Punycode | xn--u7h |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | E2 9A 96 EF B8 8F |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | \u2696\uFE0F |
| C, C++, Python | \u2696\uFE0F |
| CSS | \2696 \FE0F |
| PHP, Ruby | \u{2696}\u{FE0F} |
| Perl | \x{2696}\x{FE0F} |
| HTML hex | ⚖️ |
| HTML dec | ⚖️ |
Tags: balance, justice, Libra, zodiac, scale, scales, tool, weight
Category: Objects
Subgroup: Tools