Magnifying glass tilted left Emoji

Objects

A handheld magnifying glass with its lens angled toward the left, featuring a black handle and a circular frame. It serves as a universal visual cue for investigating, searching, or looking closer at something.

Usage Context

This icon is the go-to choice for search bars on websites and mobile apps. Users send it when they are hunting for information, digging through facts, or playfully implying that they are 'investigating' a suspicious situation. It is frequently paired with 🕵️ when someone is playing detective or with 🔎 to emphasize the act of discovery.

History

The magnifying glass icon has been a staple of graphical user interfaces since the early days of personal computing, famously appearing in the original Macintosh OS and Windows 95 to represent file search functions. It was officially added to the Unicode standard in 2010 to standardize the search button across global platforms.

Details

Glyph

🔍

Unicode

U+1F50D

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f50d:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDD0D;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category Objects

Subcategory light & video

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License Apache-2.0 / OFL-1.1

Google Noto License

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