U+1F50E Right-Pointing Magnifying Glass
U+1F50E was added to Unicode in version 6.0 (2010). It belongs to the block
This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. The character is also known as get more details.
The glyph is not a composition. It has a Wide East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Other Neutral and is not mirrored. In text U+1F50E behaves as Ideographic regarding line breaks. It has type Other for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.
The CLDR project labels this character “magnifying glass tilted right” for use in screen reading software. It assigns additional tags, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: glass, magnifying, magnifying glass tilted right, search, tool.
This character is designated as an emoji. It will be rendered as colorful emoji on conforming platforms. To reduce it to a monochrome character, you can combine it with
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
A magnifying glass is a convex lens that is used to produce a magnified image of an object. The lens is usually mounted in a frame with a handle. A magnifying glass can be used to focus light, such as to concentrate the sun's radiation to create a hot spot at the focus for fire starting.
A sheet magnifier consists of many very narrow concentric ring-shaped lenses, such that the combination acts as a single lens but is much thinner. This arrangement is known as a Fresnel lens.
The magnifying glass is an icon of detective fiction, particularly that of Sherlock Holmes.
Representations
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Nº | 128270 |
UTF-8 | F0 9F 94 8E |
UTF-16 | D8 3D DD 0E |
UTF-32 | 00 01 F5 0E |
URL-Quoted | %F0%9F%94%8E |
HTML hex reference | 🔎 |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | 🔎 |
alias | get more details |
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