U+1F526 Electric Torch
U+1F526 was added in Unicode version 6.0 in 2010. It belongs to the block Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs in the Supplementary Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. The character is also known as flashlight.
The glyph is not a composition. Its East Asian Width is wide. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+1F526 offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts.
The CLDR project calls this character “flashlight” for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: electric, light, tool, torch.
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 Variation Selector-15: 🔦︎ See the Emojipedia for more details on this character’s emoji properties.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
A flashlight (US) or electric torch (CE), usually shortened to torch, is a portable hand-held electric lamp. Formerly, the light source typically was a miniature incandescent light bulb, but these have been displaced by light-emitting diodes (LEDs) since the early 2000s. A typical flashlight consists of the light source mounted in a reflector, a transparent cover (sometimes combined with a lens) to protect the light source and reflector, a battery, and a switch, all enclosed in a case.
The invention of the dry cell and miniature incandescent electric lamps made the first battery-powered flashlights possible around 1899. Today, flashlights use mostly light-emitting diodes and run on disposable or rechargeable batteries. Some are powered by the user turning a crank, shaking the lamp, or squeezing it. Some have solar panels to recharge the battery. Flashlights are used as a light source outdoors, in places without permanently installed lighting, during power outages, or when a portable light source is needed.
In addition to the general-purpose, hand-held flashlight, many forms have been adapted for special uses. Head- or helmet-mounted flashlights designed for miners and campers leave both hands free. Some flashlights can be used under water or in flammable atmospheres.
Representations
| System | Representation |
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| Nº | 128294 |
| UTF-8 | F0 9F 94 A6 |
| UTF-16 | D8 3D DD 26 |
| UTF-32 | 00 01 F5 26 |
| URL-Quoted | %F0%9F%94%A6 |
| HTML hex reference | 🔦 |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | 🔦 |
| alias | flashlight |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
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| 6.0 (2010) | |
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