ℹ️Information Emoji
ℹ️ means information. It’s a little white circle with an “i” in it.
ℹ️ means information.
- Unicode
- U+2139 U+FE0F
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :information_source:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the ℹ️ Information emoji mean?
Information emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+2139. 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 — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Information emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :information_source:.
In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+2139.
How to type the ℹ️ Information emoji
No picker to hand? The information can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
Information emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the information as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Information emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around information 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 ℹ️, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
What ℹ️ 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 ℹ️ Information 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.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
ℹ️ existed there as
KDDI au E533.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Information was approved as U+2139 U+FE0F 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 ℹ️ is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.