Objects · Emoji 0.6
📏Straight Ruler Emoji
Basically, it means “straight” or “precise.” People use it to show something is perfectly aligned or to emphasize a measurement.
The 📏 emoji is a straight ruler.
- Unicode
- U+1F4CF
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :straight_
ruler: - Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 📏 Straight Ruler emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 6 of them.
02 — Platforms
Straight Ruler emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the straight ruler has been drawn in 3 ways.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Straight Ruler emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :straight_ruler:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F4CF.
04 — How to type
How to type the 📏 Straight Ruler emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
05 — Download
Straight Ruler emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 9. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
06 — Combinations
Straight Ruler emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around straight ruler for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
All combinations →Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with 📏, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
08 — In conversation
What 📏 means from a girl or a guy
Who sent the straight ruler and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
09 — Apps
What 📏 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
The character is the same everywhere, but the artwork and the reading of it change from app to app.
11 — History
Where the 📏 Straight Ruler emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time — U+1F4CF never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
📏 existed there as
KDDI au E570.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Straight Ruler was approved as U+1F4CF and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 📏 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.
12 — FAQ