Crayon Emoji

Objects

A wax-based drawing stick shown at a slight angle, usually colored red with a pointed tip. The design mimics the classic primary-colored crayons found in school supply kits.

Usage Context

Used to talk about childhood, art projects, drawing, or simple creative tasks. It is frequently sent when referencing coloring books or children's schoolwork. It pairs well with other artistic tools like ✏️ or 🎨 to signal a creative mood.

History

Added to the Unicode standard in 2016, the crayon was introduced as part of a push to include more common stationery and art supplies in the emoji library to match the growing need for icons representing everyday school and office items.

Details

Glyph

🖍

Unicode

U+1F58D

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f58d:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDD8D;

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category Objects

Subcategory writing

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Twemoji Attribution

Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0

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