About Pencil
Pencil is the Unicode character ✏️ at codepoint U+270F in the Dingbats block of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP).
Developer Notes
| Unicode Codepoint | |
| Decimal | |
| UTF-8 (hex) | |
| UTF-16 (hex) | |
| HEX Entity | |
| CSS (\xxxx) | |
| JavaScript | |
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How to Use Pencil
To use the Pencil symbol (✏️) in HTML, insert the
entity ✏️ directly into your markup.
In CSS pseudo-elements use content: '\270F';.
In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u270F' evaluates to ✏️. In Python source, write '\u270F'.
The character encodes to E2 9C 8F as UTF-8 bytes and 270F as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 9999.
This is a fully-qualified emoji and should render with colour on iOS, Android, Windows and macOS. Appearance may vary between platforms, but the underlying codepoint is identical everywhere.