Input latin lowercase Emoji
Symbols
A blue square icon containing the lowercase letters 'abcd'. It serves as a visual indicator for toggling character input modes between uppercase and lowercase text.
Usage Context
This icon is a fixture on mobile device keyboards, specifically appearing on the key used to shift between letter cases. Users tap this to switch their input mode when typing messages, passwords, or searching for specific text. It is frequently grouped with related keyboard function symbols like 🔠 for uppercase and 🔢 for numeric input.
History
Introduced in Unicode 6.0 in 2010, this emoji was added to provide visual consistency for virtual keyboards on smartphones. It draws directly from the interface design of early touchscreen operating systems that needed a clear way to signal that a user was currently typing in lowercase mode.
Details
Glyph
🔡
Unicode
U+1F521
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f521:
HTML Entity
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Specifications
Vendor Google
Category Symbols
Subcategory alphanum
Unicode Version 6.0
Emoji Version 1.0
License Apache-2.0 / OFL-1.1
Google Noto License
Emoji graphics by Google. © Google Inc. Licensed under Apache License 2.0 and SIL Open Font License 1.1 where applicable.
Noto Color Emoji graphics are copyrighted by Google Inc. and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Font files may also be subject to the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.
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