Magnifying glass tilted right

A magnifying glass pointing to the right. It stands for searching, inspecting and zooming in on a detail.

Sent after a screenshot, it says “look closely.” It also marks a hunt for information, a review, or a playful detective mood.

There is no real difference in meaning from 🔍; people pick whichever direction looks right in the message.

Facts

Magnifying glass tilted right 🔎 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_right: or :magnifying_glass_tilted_right:. People also look for it with words like “contact”, “glass”, “lab”, or “magnifying”.

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