This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. The character is also known as brush.
The glyph is not a composition. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+1F58C offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts.
The CLDR project calls this character “paintbrush” for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: painting.
This character is designated as an emoji. It will be rendered as monochrome character on conforming platforms. To enable colorful emoji display, you can combine it with Variation Selector-16: 🖌️ See the Emojipedia for more details on this character’s emoji properties.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
A paintbrush is a brush used to apply paint or ink. A paintbrush is usually made by clamping bristles to a handle with a ferrule. They are available in various sizes, shapes, and materials. Thicker ones are used for filling in, and thinner ones are used for details. They may be subdivided into decorators' brushes used for painting and decorating and artists' brushes use for visual art.
Representations
System
Representation (click value to copy)
Nº
128396
UTF-8
F0 9F 96 8C
UTF-16
D8 3D DD 8C
UTF-32
00 01 F5 8C
URL-Quoted
%F0%9F%96%8C
HTML hex reference
🖌
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake
🖌
alias
brush
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes)
94 39 F1 30
RFC 5137
\u'1F58C'
Bash and Zsh inside echo -e
\U0001F58C
C and C++
\U0001F58C
C#
\U0001F58C
CSS
\01F58C
Excel
=UNICHAR(128396)
Go
\U0001F58C
JavaScript
\uD83D\uDD8C
Modern JavaScript since ES6
\u{1f58c}
JSON
\uD83D\uDD8C
Java
\uD83D\uDD8C
Lua
\u{1F58C}
Matlab
char(128396)
Perl
"\x{1F58C}"
PHP
\u{1f58c}
PostgreSQL
U&'\+01F58C'
PowerShell
`u{1F58C}
Python
\U0001F58C
Ruby
\u{1f58c}
Rust
\u{1f58c}
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