Straight ruler

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Shortcode
:straight_ruler:
Unicode
U+1F4CF
HTML
📏
CSS
\1F4CF
JavaScript
"\u{1F4CF}"
URL
%F0%9F%93%8F

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What ๐Ÿ“ means

A straight ruler. It stands for measuring, length, size and precision.

People use it for measurements, math homework, sizing and DIY projects. It also turns up when talking about height or how long something is.

In jokes about size, ๐Ÿ“ can carry a sexual innuendo.

Facts

Straight ruler ๐Ÿ“ is an emoji in the objects category, under office. 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 :straight_ruler:. People also look for it with words like โ€œangleโ€, โ€œedgeโ€, โ€œmathโ€, or โ€œrulerโ€.

Timeline

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

Design history

Google (Noto)

  1. straight ruler, Google (Noto) design from 20152015
  2. straight ruler, Google (Noto) design from 20172017
  3. straight ruler, Google (Noto) design from 20212021
  4. straight ruler, Google (Noto) design from 20252025

Twemoji (X, Discord)

  1. straight ruler, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20142014

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

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