⚖️Balance Scale Emoji
Generally, the ⚖️ emoji means balance or fairness. People use it to represent a situation where things are equal or just.
The ⚖️ emoji shows a balanced scale.
- Unicode
- U+2696 U+FE0F
- Released
- 2015
- Shortcode
- :scales:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the ⚖️ Balance Scale emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 8.
People also look for it as libra emoji.
Balance Scale emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+2696 — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your balance scale looks like to the person on the other side.
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.
Balance Scale 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 :scales:.
In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+2696.
How to type the ⚖️ Balance Scale emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+2696 when there is no key at all.
Balance Scale emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 9. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Balance Scale emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around balance scale 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 balance scale and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
What ⚖️ means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the balance scale lands changes how it is taken.
Where the ⚖️ Balance Scale emoji came from
When it was approved, which release it landed in, and how long phones have had it.
Balance Scale was approved as U+2696 U+FE0F and shipped in Emoji 1.0 (2015). 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, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.