Balance scale
Your device cannot show this emoji yet. It still copies, and newer phones will show it.
- Shortcode
:balance_scale:- Unicode
U+2696- HTML
⚖- CSS
\2696- JavaScript
"\u{2696}"- URL
%E2%9A%96%EF%B8%8F
What ⚖️ means
A two-pan balance scale. It stands for justice, law and fairness, and for weighing two choices against each other.
Lawyers, law students and court news use it often. People also use it for pros and cons, work-life balance, and as a symbol for Libra next to ♎.
Facts
Balance scale ⚖️ is an emoji in the objects category, under tool. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 1.0, released in 2015. 3 other emoji use it as a building block. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :balance_scale:. People also look for it with words like “Libra”, “balance”, “justice”, or “scale”.
Timeline
- 2015Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 1.0)
- 20162 new emoji built from it (Emoji 4.0)👨⚖️👩⚖️
- 2019New emoji built from it (Emoji 12.1)🧑⚖️
Design history
Google (Noto)
2017
2021
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2016
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.