🖌Paintbrush Emoji
It generally means you’re talking about art, painting, or drawing. People use it to signal they’re feeling creative or want to be.
The 🖌 emoji represents a paintbrush.
- Unicode
- U+1F58C
- Released
- 2014
- Shortcode
- :lower_left_paintbrush:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🖌 Paintbrush emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
Paintbrush emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the paintbrush as 8 vendors ship it.
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.
Paintbrush 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 :lower_left_paintbrush:.
In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F58C.
How to type the 🖌 Paintbrush emoji
No picker to hand? The paintbrush can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
Paintbrush 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.
Paintbrush emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around paintbrush 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
Who sent the paintbrush and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
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.
Where the 🖌 Paintbrush emoji came from
Approved as part of Emoji 0.7, the paintbrush has been on phones for years now — counting from its release, 12.
Same character every time — U+1F58C 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.
Paintbrush was approved as U+1F58C 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.