Input symbols Emoji
Symbols
A blue square featuring the characters &, %, #, and a musical note. It serves as a visual shortcut for accessing a secondary character set or special keyboard symbols.
Usage Context
This icon acts as a functional bridge on mobile device keyboards, signaling to the user that they can toggle between letters and punctuation or special characters. It is frequently seen alongside other input-related icons like 🔤 or 1234 when users need to clarify which keyboard layer they are navigating.
History
Included in Unicode 6.0 in 2010, this character was developed to mirror the specific key toggles found on early smartphone touchscreens. It provided a clear, universal way to represent the 'switch to symbols' function that helped mobile users navigate complex alphanumeric text inputs.
Details
Glyph
🔣
Unicode
U+1F523
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f523:
HTML Entity
��
Specifications
Vendor Google
Category Symbols
Subcategory alphanum
Unicode Version 6.0
Emoji Version 1.0
License CC-BY 4.0
Google Noto License
Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0
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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