U+1F5A8 Printer
U+1F5A8 was added to Unicode in version 7.0 (2014). 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 glyph is not a composition. It has a Neutral East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Other Neutral and is not mirrored. In text U+1F5A8 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 “printer” for use in screen reading software. It assigns additional tags, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: computer, printer.
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:
In computing, a printer is a peripheral machine which makes a persistent representation of graphics or text, usually on paper. While most output is human-readable, bar code printers are an example of an expanded use for printers. Different types of printers include 3D printers, inkjet printers, laser printers, and thermal printers.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 128424 |
| UTF-8 | F0 9F 96 A8 |
| UTF-16 | D8 3D DD A8 |
| UTF-32 | 00 01 F5 A8 |
| URL-Quoted | %F0%9F%96%A8 |
| HTML hex reference | 🖨 |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | 🖨 |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
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| 7.0 (2014) | |
| PRINTER | |
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| Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows | |
| Other Symbol | |
| Common | |
| Other Neutral | |
| Not Reordered | |
| None | |
| Printer | |
| ✘ | |
| Printer | |
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| ✔ | |
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| Printer | |
| Any | |
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| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
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| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Printer | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
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| Other | |
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| Other | |
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| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Printer | |
| None | |
| Neutral | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Ideographic | |
| None | |
| not a number | |
| Printer | |
| U |