✏️U+270F U+FE0F
Pencil emoji
Typically yellow with a sharpened tip, a pencil is for writing, drawing and editing. People use it for school, taking notes, filling out forms, revising text and creative work.
- Unicode name
- pencil
- Added
- Emoji 0.6 in 2010
- Code points
- U+270F U+FE0F
- Shortcode
:pencil2:- Keywords
- pencil
How it looks
How to type ✏️
- iPhone and iPad
- Open the emoji keyboard, tap Search Emoji and type “pencil”.
- Android
- In Gboard, tap the emoji button and search for “pencil”.
- Mac
- Press Control–Command–Space (or Globe + E) and type “pencil”.
- Windows
- Press Windows + . (period) and type “pencil”.
- GitHub
- Type :pencil2: in an issue, pull request or comment.
In other languages
| Language | Name | Keywords |
|---|---|---|
| Español | lápiz | escolar, escribir, lapicero, lápiz |
| Français | crayon | crayon, crayon à papier, gomme, mine |
| Deutsch | Bleistift | Bleistift, Stift |
| Italiano | matita | disegnare, matita, matita con gomma, scrivere, scrivere a matita |
| Português | lápis | lápis |
| Nederlands | potlood | potlood |
| Svenska | blyertspenna | blyertspenna |
| Polski | ołówek | ołówek, pisak, rysować |
| Türkçe | kurşun kalem | kurşun kalem |
| Русский | карандаш | грифель, карандаш, простой, рисовать |
| Українська | олівець | олівець |
| Ελληνικά | μολύβι | γράφω, μολύβι |
| العربية | قلم رصاص | تدوين, رصاص, قلم, كتابة |
| עברית | עיפרון | כלי כתיבה, לכתוב, עיפרון, עפרון, עפרונות |
| فارسی | مداد | با مداد نوشتن, مداد, مداد رنگی |
| हिन्दी | पेंसिल | पेंसिल |
| বাংলা | পেনসিল | পেনসিল |
| Bahasa Indonesia | pensil | pensil, tulis |
| Tiếng Việt | bút chì | bút chì, văn phòng phẩm |
| ไทย | ดินสอ | ดินสอ |
| 日本語 | 鉛筆 | 文具, 文房具, 鉛筆 |
| 한국어 | 연필 | 연필, 필기도구 |
| 中文（简体） | 铅笔 | 橡皮, 橡皮擦, 画画, 画笔, 笔, 绘画, 铅笔 |
| 中文（繁體） | 鉛筆 | 鉛筆 |
Names in 96 more languages
| Afrikaans | potlood |
|---|---|
| Akan | pԑnsere |
| Albanian | laps |
| Amharic | እርሳስ |
| Armenian | մատիտ |
| Assamese | পেঞ্চিল |
| Azerbaijani | karandaş |
| Bashkir | ҡәләм |
| Basque | arkatza |
| Belarusian | аловак |
| Bosnian | olovka |
| Breton | kreion |
| Bulgarian | молив |
| Burmese | ခဲတံ |
| Cantonese | 鉛筆 |
| Cantonese (Simplified) | 铅笔 |
| Catalan | llapis |
| Cherokee | ᏗᎪᏪᎶᏙᏗ |
| Chuvash | кӑранташ |
| Croatian | olovka |
| Czech | tužka |
| Danish | blyant |
| Estonian | pliiats |
| Faroese | blýantur |
| Filipino | lapis |
| Finnish | lyijykynä |
| Galician | lapis |
| Georgian | ფანქარი |
| Gujarati | પૅન્સિલ |
| Hausa | fensir |
| Hungarian | ceruza |
| Icelandic | blýantur |
| Igbo | pensụl |
| Irish | peann luaidhe |
| Javanese | potlot |
| Kalaallisut | blyant |
| Kannada | ಪೆನ್ಸಿಲ್ |
| Kazakh | қарындаш |
| Kazakh (Arabic) | قارىنداش |
| Khmer | ខ្មៅដៃ |
| Kinyarwanda | ikaramu y’igiti |
| Konkani | पेन्सिल |
| Kyrgyz | калем |
| Kʼicheʼ | che’ tz’ib’ab’al |
| Lao | ສໍ |
| Latvian | zīmulis |
| Lithuanian | pieštukas |
| Lower Sorbian | wołojnik |
| Luxembourgish | Bläistëft |
| Macedonian | молив |
| Malay | pensel |
| Malayalam | പെൻസിൽ |
| Maltese | lapes |
| Marathi | पेन्सिल |
| Mongolian | харандаа |
| Māori | penerākau |
| Nepali | शिशा कलम |
| Nigerian Pidgin | Pẹ́nsul |
| Northern Sotho | phensele |
| Norwegian | blyant |
| Odia | ପେନସିଲ୍ |
| Oromo | qubeessaa |
| Pashto | پنسل |
| Punjabi | ਪੈਨਸਿਲ |
| Punjabi (Arabic) | پینسل |
| Quechua | qillqana |
| Romanian | creion |
| Romansh | rispli |
| Sardinian | lapis |
| Scottish Gaelic | peansail |
| Serbian | оловка |
| Serbian (Latin) | olovka |
| Shan | ၵမ်ၸိုၼ်း |
| Sindhi | پينسل |
| Sinhala | පැන්සල |
| Slovak | ceruzka |
| Slovenian | svinčnik |
| Somali | qalin qori |
| Swahili | penseli |
| Tajik | қалам |
| Tamil | பென்சில் |
| Telugu | పెన్సిల్ |
| Tigrinya | ርሳስ |
| Tongan | peni |
| Tswana | pensele |
| Turkmen | galam |
| Upper Sorbian | wołojnik |
| Urdu | پنسل |
| Uyghur | قېرىنداش |
| Uzbek | qalam |
| Welsh | pensil |
| Wolof | kreyoŋ |
| Xhosa | ipensile |
| Yoruba | pẹ́nsùlù |
| Yoruba (Benin) | pɛ́nsùlù |
| Zulu | ipenseli |
Codes
- Code points
U+270F U+FE0F- HTML
✏️- CSS
\270F\FE0F- JavaScript, Rust, Swift
\u{270F}\u{FE0F}- Python
\u270F\uFE0F- UTF-8 bytes
E2 9C 8F EF B8 8F- UTF-16
270F FE0F- URL encoded
%E2%9C%8F%EF%B8%8F
Questions
What does the ✏️ pencil emoji mean?
Typically yellow with a sharpened tip, a pencil is for writing, drawing and editing. People use it for school, taking notes, filling out forms, revising text and creative work.
How do I type the ✏️ emoji?
On iPhone, iPad or Android, search the emoji keyboard for “pencil”. On a Mac press Control–Command–Space, and on Windows press Windows + period, then type the same words. You can also copy it from this page. On GitHub, type :pencil2:.
When was the ✏️ emoji added?
✏️ was added in Emoji 0.6, released in 2010.
What is the Unicode code point for ✏️?
U+270F U+FE0F. In HTML you can write ✏️, and in JavaScript, Rust or Swift \u{270F}\u{FE0F}.