Information
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- Shortcode
:information_source:- Shortcode
:information:- Unicode
U+2139- HTML
ℹ- CSS
\2139- JavaScript
"\u{2139}"- URL
%E2%84%B9%EF%B8%8F
What ℹ️ means
A lowercase i in a blue box, the standard information sign. It means info, details, or 'good to know'.
People use ℹ️ to open an FYI, a note or a fact in a post or channel. Tourist desks and help pages use it too. In work chat it signals background reading, not an action item.
Facts
Information ℹ️ is an emoji in the symbols category, under alphanum. 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 :information_source: or :information:. People also look for it with words like “I”.
Timeline
- 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2015
2017
2018
2021
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2014
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.