Trackball

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Shortcode
:trackball:
Unicode
U+1F5B2
HTML
🖲
CSS
\1F5B2
JavaScript
"\u{1F5B2}"
URL
%F0%9F%96%B2%EF%B8%8F

computer

What ๐Ÿ–ฒ๏ธ means

A trackball, a pointing device where the user rolls a ball with a thumb or palm instead of moving a mouse.

Rare in chat. Trackball fans use it for their setups, and others use it for retro arcade controls or as a generic sign for computer input. Many readers do not recognize it and take it for a button or a joystick base.

Facts

Trackball ๐Ÿ–ฒ๏ธ is an emoji in the objects category, under computer. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 7.0 (2014). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :trackball:. People also look for it with words like โ€œcomputerโ€.

Timeline

  1. 2014Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 7.0)

Design history

Google (Noto)

  1. trackball, Google (Noto) design from 20172017
  2. trackball, Google (Noto) design from 20202020
  3. trackball, Google (Noto) design from 20212021
  4. trackball, Google (Noto) design from 20262026

Twemoji (X, Discord)

  1. trackball, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20162016

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

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