✏️Pencil Emoji
Generally, the ✏️ emoji just means a pencil. People use it to represent writing, drawing, or anything related to pencils.
The ✏️ emoji is a simple pencil.
- Unicode
- U+270F U+FE0F
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :pencil2:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the ✏️ Pencil emoji mean?
Pencil emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+270F. 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.
Pencil 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 :pencil2:.
In your code
Escapes for the languages people actually paste this into. Every one of them produces the same character, and that character is U+270F.
How to type the ✏️ Pencil emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+270F when there is no key at all.
Pencil emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the pencil as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Pencil emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around pencil 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 pencil lands changes how it is taken.
Where the ✏️ Pencil 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.
✏️ existed there as
NTT DoCoMo E719, KDDI au E4A1.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Pencil was approved as U+270F 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 ✏️ is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.