Crayon

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Shortcode
:crayon:
Unicode
U+1F58D
HTML
🖍
CSS
\1F58D
JavaScript
"\u{1F58D}"
URL
%F0%9F%96%8D%EF%B8%8F

crayon

What ๐Ÿ–๏ธ means

A wax crayon. It stands for children's drawing, coloring and simple, playful art.

People use it for kids' art, coloring books and craft time. โ€œExplain it in crayonโ€ asks for a very simple explanation.

In US military humor, crayons are a running joke about Marines eating them, so ๐Ÿ–๏ธ sometimes appears in that teasing.

Facts

Crayon ๐Ÿ–๏ธ is an emoji in the objects category, under writing. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 7.0 (2014). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :crayon:.

Timeline

  1. 2014Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 7.0)

Design history

Google (Noto)

  1. crayon, Google (Noto) design from 20172017
  2. crayon, Google (Noto) design from 20212021

Twemoji (X, Discord)

  1. crayon, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20162016

Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.

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