Pencil

Meaning and uses

A pencil pointing down and to the right. It means write or edit, and it suits bios for writers and artists.

Unicode details

✎ is the Unicode character named LOWER RIGHT PENCIL, code point U+270E, in the Dingbats block. It was added in Unicode 1.1 in 1993, and Unicode classes it as a symbol (general category So).

It is not an emoji, so it keeps the colour and size of the text around it.

Tap a code to copy it:

How to type ✎

• On any device, tap the copy button above, then paste with a long press on a phone, Ctrl+V on Windows or Cmd+V on a Mac.
• In Microsoft Word on Windows, type 270E and then press Alt+X to turn the code into ✎.
• On a Mac, press Control+Cmd+Space to open the Character Viewer, then search for “lower right pencil”.
• On Linux, most desktops accept Ctrl+Shift+U, then 270e, then Space or Enter.
• In HTML, use ✎. In a CSS content property, use "\270E".