Light bulb
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- Shortcode
:bulb:- Shortcode
:light_bulb:- Unicode
U+1F4A1- HTML
💡- CSS
\1F4A1- JavaScript
"\u{1F4A1}"- URL
%F0%9F%92%A1
What ๐ก means
A glowing light bulb, the classic comic-strip sign of a sudden idea. It means an idea, insight or tip.
Common at the start of a tip: โ๐ก Tip: clear your cache first.โ In chat it says โI have an ideaโ or that something just clicked. It can also mean electricity or lighting in a literal sense.
Facts
Light bulb ๐ก is an emoji in the objects category, under light video. 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 :bulb: or :light_bulb:. People also look for it with words like โbulbโ, โcomicโ, โelectricโ, or โideaโ.
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.