๐กInput Latin Lowercase Emoji
It mostly just means โtypingโ or โwriting. โ People use it to show theyโre actively sending a message or to highlight the fact that they're using letters.
The ๐ก emoji represents a small keyboard with lowercase letters.
- Unicode
- U+1F521
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :abcd:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the ๐ก Input Latin Lowercase emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
Input Latin Lowercase emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F521. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 9.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Facebook, Messenger
Open-source, design systems
Galaxy, One UI
Windows, Teams, Fluent
WhatsApp on Android
Slack, Discord themes
See the whole set the way each system draws it โ iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Input Latin Lowercase 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 :abcd:.
In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F521.
How to type the ๐ก Input Latin Lowercase emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system โ and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
Input Latin Lowercase emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the input latin lowercase as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Input Latin Lowercase emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around input latin lowercase for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with ๐ก, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
What ๐ก means from a girl or a guy
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
What ๐ก means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings โ where the input latin lowercase lands changes how it is taken.
๐ก vs ๐ฃ โ what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Input Latin Lowercase
Code: U+1F521 ยท added 2010
Shortcode: :abcd:
It mostly just means โtypingโ or โwriting.
Unicode name: Input Symbols
Code: U+1F523 ยท added 2010
Shortcode: :symbols:
It usually just means โmessageโ or โtext.
Where the ๐ก Input Latin Lowercase 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 โ U+1F521 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.
๐ก existed there as
KDDI au EAFE.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all โ Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Input Latin Lowercase was approved as U+1F521 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 ๐ก is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes โ only the picture does.