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U+270F · PENCIL

Pencil

  • CodepointU+270F
  • NamePENCIL
  • Emoji namepencil
  • Decimal9999
  • BlockDingbats (U+2700–U+27BF)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategorySo — Other Symbol
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classON — Other Neutral
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthN — Neutral
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+270F (✏) is PENCIL, a symbol in the Dingbats block. Its script is Common: it is shared by many writing systems rather than belonging to one. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

Its emoji name (CLDR short name) is “pencil”, in the Objects group, subgroup writing. By default it is shown as a text glyph; follow it with U+FE0F VARIATION SELECTOR-16 to request the colour emoji form (U+270F U+FE0F), or with U+FE0E VARIATION SELECTOR-15 to force text style.

How to type ✏

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E2 9C 8F3 bytes
UTF-16270F1 code unit
UTF-320000270F4 bytes
HTML decimal✏
HTML hex✏
CSS\270Fin content: "…"
JavaScript\u270F
JSON\u270F
Python\u270F
Python\N{PENCIL}by name
Java / C#\u270F
C / C++\u270Funiversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{270F}
Go\u270F
Ruby\u270F
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(9999)
URL-encoded%E2%9C%8Fpercent-encoded UTF-8
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Nearby in Dingbats

All in block →
U+2709✉Envelope U+270A✊Raised Fist U+270B✋Raised Hand U+270C✌Victory Hand U+270D✍Writing Hand U+270E✎Lower Right Pencil U+2710✐Upper Right Pencil U+2711✑White Nib U+2712✒Black Nib U+2713✓Check Mark U+2714✔Heavy Check Mark U+2715✕Multiplication X