Objects · Emoji 0.6
🔎Magnifying Glass Tilted Right Emoji
Generally, it means “I’m looking for it” or “Let’s investigate this.” People use it in texts when they’re trying to find information or want to examine something together.
The 🔎 emoji is a magnifying glass.
- Unicode
- U+1F50E
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :mag_
right: - Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🔎 Magnifying Glass Tilted Right emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
02 — Platforms
Magnifying Glass Tilted Right emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F50E — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your magnifying glass tilted right looks like to the person on the other side.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Magnifying Glass Tilted Right 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 :mag_right:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the magnifying glass tilted right, code point U+1F50E.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🔎 Magnifying Glass Tilted Right emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F50E when there is no key at all.
05 — Download
Magnifying Glass Tilted Right 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
Microsoft
JoyPixels
06 — Combinations
Magnifying Glass Tilted Right emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around magnifying glass tilted right 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
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
09 — Apps
What 🔎 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the magnifying glass tilted right lands changes how it is taken.
11 — Difference
🔎 vs 🔍 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Magnifying Glass Tilted Right
Code: U+1F50E · added 2010
Shortcode: :mag_right:
Generally, it means “I’m looking for it” or “Let’s investigate this.”
Unicode name: Magnifying Glass Tilted Left
Code: U+1F50D · added 2010
Shortcode: :mag:
Generally, it just means “looking for” or “searching.”
12 — History
Where the 🔎 Magnifying Glass Tilted Right 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+1F50E 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
NTT DoCoMo E6DC, KDDI au EB05.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Magnifying Glass Tilted Right was approved as U+1F50E 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.
13 — FAQ