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

&#xD83D;&#xDD23;

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category Symbols

Subcategory alphanum

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Twemoji Attribution

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