Symbols ยท Emoji 0.6
๐ฃInput Symbols Emoji
It usually just means โmessageโ or โtext.โ People often use it to clarify they're referring to a digital message they sent or received.
The ๐ฃ emoji represents a literal input symbol, like a key or a character on a keyboard.
- Unicode
- U+1F523
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :symbols:
- Skin tones
- No
01 โ Meaning
What does the ๐ฃ Input Symbols emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 2.
02 โ Platforms
Input Symbols emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen โ here is the input symbols as 9 vendors ship it.
See the whole set the way each system draws it โ iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 โ Copy & codes
Input Symbols emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation โ including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :symbols:.
All emoji copy and paste โIn your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F523.
04 โ How to type
How to type the ๐ฃ Input Symbols emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system โ and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
05 โ Download
Input Symbols emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the input symbols as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Emoji PNG library โ
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
Microsoft
06 โ Combinations
Input Symbols emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around input symbols for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
All combinations โWant two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that for every pair Google has drawn, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
07 โ In conversation
What ๐ฃ means from a girl or a guy
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
08 โ Apps
What ๐ฃ 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.
10 โ Difference
๐ฃ vs ๐ค โ what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Input Symbols
Code: U+1F523 ยท added 2010
Shortcode: :symbols:
It usually just means โmessageโ or โtext.โ
Unicode name: Input Latin Letters
Code: U+1F524 ยท added 2010
Shortcode: :abc:
It usually just means "letter" or "words."
11 โ History
Where the ๐ฃ Input Symbols 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+1F523 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.
๐ฃ existed there as
KDDI au EB00.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all โ Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Input Symbols was approved as U+1F523 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 ๐ฃ is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes โ only the picture does.
12 โ FAQ