Pencil

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Shortcode: :pencil2:
Shortcode: :pencil:
Unicode: U+270F
HTML: ✏
CSS: \270F
JavaScript: "\u{270F}"
URL: %E2%9C%8F%EF%B8%8F

What ✏️ means

A yellow pencil. It stands for writing, drawing, editing and school.

People use it for homework, sketches and edits, and to flag a correction: “✏️ Edit: wrong date.” To “pencil in” a plan means to set it tentatively, so ✏️ can mark a maybe on the calendar.

Facts

Pencil ✏️ is an emoji in the objects category, under writing. 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 :pencil2: or :pencil:.