Magnifying glass tilted left

A magnifying glass pointing to the left. It means search, take a closer look, or investigate.

People use it when they are looking for something, like “🔍 searching for a good dentist,” or to point at a detail others missed. It also suits detective work, research and fact-checking. In design and apps it is the familiar search icon.

Facts

Magnifying glass tilted left 🔍 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 :mag: or :magnifying_glass_tilted_left:. People also look for it with words like “glass”, “lab”, “left”, or “left-pointing”.

Timeline

1. 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)

Design history

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

objects · Unicode 6.0