Pencil Emoji
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What does the Pencil emoji mean?
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A classic yellow pencil topped with a red eraser, just what you’d use to write. When shown next to a ballot box, it stands for casting a vote or an election.
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The pencil emoji has a classic yellow body and a pink eraser at its end. It's commonly used by schoolchildren, students, and artists to jot down quick notes or sketch ideas.
The pencil represents writing and drawing, and can also, figuratively, mean "to take into account."
Also Known As
- ✏️ ✏ Lead Pencil
Apple Name
- ✏️ Pencil
Unicode Name
- ✏️ Pencil
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
Download the Pencil emoji
Vector file from the Noto Emoji set by Google, licence CC BY 4.0.
✏️ Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+270F U+FE0F
Shortcodes
- works in Github, Slack, Discord
- works in Emojipedia
For developers
| URL escape code | %E2%9C%8F%EF%B8%8F |
| Punycode | xn--bci |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | E2 9C 8F EF B8 8F |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | \u270F\uFE0F |
| C, C++, Python | \u270F\uFE0F |
| CSS | \270F \FE0F |
| PHP, Ruby | \u{270F}\u{FE0F} |
| Perl | \x{270F}\x{FE0F} |
| HTML hex | ✏️ |
| HTML dec | ✏️ |