✒️Black Nib Emoji
Generally, when someone sends you ✒️ in a text, they’re referencing the idea of writing or creating something. It’s often a lighthearted way to talk about ideas or a personal note.
The ✒️ emoji represents a black writing nib.
- Unicode
- U+2712 U+FE0F
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :black_nib:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the ✒️ Black Nib emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 3 of them.
Black Nib emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+2712. 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.
Black Nib emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :black_nib:.
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+2712.
How to type the ✒️ Black Nib emoji
No picker to hand? The black nib can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
Black Nib emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the black nib 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
Black Nib emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around black nib 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 black nib 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.
✒️ vs 🐦⬛ — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Black Nib
Code: U+2712 U+FE0F · added 2010
Shortcode: :black_nib:
Generally, when someone sends you ✒️ in a text, they’re referencing the idea of writing or creating something.
Unicode name: Black Bird
Code: U+1F426 U+200D U+2B1B · added 2022
Shortcode: :black_bird:
The 🐦⬛ emoji represents a black bird, typically a crow or raven.
Where the ✒️ Black Nib 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.
Same character every time — U+2712 U+FE0F 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.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
✒️ existed there as
NTT DoCoMo E6AE, KDDI au EB03.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Black Nib was approved as U+2712 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.