This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.
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. The word that U+2712 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it.
The CLDR project calls this character “black nib” for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: black, nib, pen.
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 Glyph for U+FE0FVariation Selector-16: ✒️ See the Emojipedia for more details on this character’s emoji properties.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
A nib is the part of a quill, dip pen, fountain pen, ball point, or stylus which comes into contact with the writing surface in order to deposit ink. Different types of nibs vary in their purpose, shape and size, as well as the material from which they are made.
Representations
System
Representation (click value to copy)
Nº
10002
UTF-8
E2 9C 92
UTF-16
27 12
UTF-32
00 00 27 12
URL-Quoted
%E2%9C%92
HTML hex reference
✒
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake
✒
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes)
81 37 BD 36
LATEX
\ding{50}
RFC 5137
\u'2712'
Bash and Zsh inside echo -e
\u2712
C and C++
\u2712
C#
\u2712
CSS
\002712
Excel
=UNICHAR(10002)
Go
\u2712
JavaScript
\u2712
Modern JavaScript since ES6
\u{2712}
JSON
\u2712
Java
\u2712
Lua
\u{2712}
Matlab
char(10002)
Perl
"\x{2712}"
PHP
\u{2712}
PostgreSQL
U&'\2712'
PowerShell
`u{2712}
Python
\u2712
Ruby
\u{2712}
Rust
\u{2712}
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