🖊Pen Emoji
Generally, when someone sends you a 🖊, they’re just signaling that they want to write, talk about writing, or are thinking about writing something. It’s a pretty straightforward way to start a conversation about ideas.
The 🖊 emoji represents a pen and all things writing.
- Unicode
- U+1F58A
- Released
- 2014
- Shortcode
- :lower_left_ballpoint_pen:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🖊 Pen emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 1.
Pen emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F58A. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 8.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
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 — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Pen emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :lower_left_ballpoint_pen:.
In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the pen, code point U+1F58A.
How to type the 🖊 Pen emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
Pen emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 8. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Pen emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around pen 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 🖊, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
What 🖊 means from a girl or a guy
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
What 🖊 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the pen lands changes how it is taken.
🖊 vs 🖋 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Pen
Code: U+1F58A · added 2014
Shortcode: :lower_left_ballpoint_pen:
Generally, when someone sends you a 🖊, they’re just signaling that they want to write, talk about writing, or are thinking about writing something.
Unicode name: Fountain Pen
Code: U+1F58B · added 2014
Shortcode: :lower_left_fountain_pen:
Generally, when someone sends you the 🖋 emoji, they just want to express that they appreciate your words or that something is written down.
Where the 🖊 Pen emoji came from
Approved as part of Emoji 0.7, the pen has been on phones for years now — counting from its release, 12.
Same character every time — U+1F58A 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.
Pen was approved as U+1F58A and shipped in Emoji 0.7 (2014). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 🖊 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.