Left-Pointing Magnifying Glass Emoji 🔍
Emoji Meaning
A magnifying glass pointing to the left. A classic magnifying glass, which is used for looking at small objects. It's generally depicted at a 45-degree angle with a black hand and transparent or blue lense in a silver frame. It's associated with detectives and search or zoom icons on a computer.
The symbol “Left-Pointing Magnifying Glass” is included in the “User interface symbols” subblock of the “Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 6.0 in 2010. In 2015, it was also approved as an Emoji in version 1.0 and added to the “Light & Video” subcategory of the “Objects” category.
Synonyms
Magnifying Glass Tilted Left, search, loupe, zoom, magnifier, magnifying glass, search icon.
| Unicode Name | Left-Pointing Magnifying Glass |
| Unicode Number | |
| HTML Code | |
| CSS Code | |
| Plane | 1: Supplementary Multilingual Plane |
| Unicode Block | Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs |
| Unicode Subblock | User interface symbols |
| Unicode Version | 6.0 (2010) |
| Emoji Version | 1.0 (2015) |
| Emoji Category | Objects |
| Emoji Subcategory | Light & Video |
| Emoji Name | Magnifying Glass Tilted Left |
| Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) | None |
| Composition Exclusion | No |
| Case change | 1F50D |
| Simple case change | 1F50D |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | F0 9F 94 8D | 240 159 148 141 | 4036990093 | 11110000 10011111 10010100 10001101 |
| UTF-16BE | D8 3D DD 0D | 216 61 221 13 | 3627932941 | 11011000 00111101 11011101 00001101 |
| UTF-16LE | 3D D8 0D DD | 61 216 13 221 | 1037569501 | 00111101 11011000 00001101 11011101 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 01 F5 0D | 0 1 245 13 | 128269 | 00000000 00000001 11110101 00001101 |
| UTF-32LE | 0D F5 01 00 | 13 245 1 0 | 234160384 | 00001101 11110101 00000001 00000000 |
