Electric plug
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- Shortcode
:electric_plug:- Unicode
U+1F50C- HTML
🔌- CSS
\1F50C- JavaScript
"\u{1F50C}"- URL
%F0%9F%94%8C
What ๐ means
A plug on a cord. Literally it stands for electricity, charging and power. In slang, โthe plugโ is the person with a connection who can get things others cannot.
Literal uses include needing a charger or a power cut. โWho's the ๐?โ asks who can get tickets, sneakers or other hard-to-find items. It also marks a plug in the promotion sense: โshameless ๐, my shop is live.โ
โThe plugโ first meant a drug supplier, and the emoji still carries that meaning in many posts about buying drugs.
Facts
Electric plug ๐ is an emoji in the objects category, under computer. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :electric_plug:. People also look for it with words like โelectricโ, โelectricityโ, or โplugโ.
Timeline
- 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2015
2017
2021
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2014
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.