Paintbrush emoji 🖌️
Emoji 0.7 (2014) · U+1F58C U+FE0F
What 🖌️ means
Paintbrush 🖌️ goes with these words in Unicode's CLDR: painting.
Those words also drive emoji search: try painting or paintbrush on your phone to find 🖌️.
On the emoji keyboard, 🖌️ sits with the writing (8 emoji) inside objects, which has 268 emoji, for example 🖍️ 📝 ✏️ ✒️.
Will 🖌️ show on my friend's phone?
🖌️ has been around since the very first emoji set (Emoji 0.7, 2014), so every device you can think of shows it.
How to type 🖌️
To find 🖌️ quickly, type paintbrush into the emoji search.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type paintbrush.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type paintbrush in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type paintbrush.
Codes for developers
A character counter sees 🖌️ as 2 code points, U+1F58C U+FE0F: 7 bytes in UTF-8 and a length of 3 in JavaScript.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1F58C U+FE0F | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🖌️ | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🖌️ | |
| CSS | content: "\1F58C \FE0F"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F58C}\uFE0F | |
| URL | %F0%9F%96%8C%EF%B8%8F | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 96 8C EF B8 8F |
Names in other languages
The CLDR name of 🖌️ in the 12 languages of this site. Each links to that language's page.
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What does the paintbrush emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🖌️ "paintbrush" and links it with painting. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the writing subgroup of objects.
When was the paintbrush emoji added?
It is one of the very first emoji, part of Emoji 0.7 from 2014, so it works on any phone.
How do I type the paintbrush emoji?
To find 🖌️ quickly, type paintbrush into the emoji search.