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⚖️Balance Scale Emoji
⚖️ is the balance scale emoji, U+2696 U+FE0F, one of 27 in the Tools set. It arrived with Emoji 1.0 (2015) and is commonly used for balance, justice and libra.
What ⚖️ balance scale means
Building, fixing and the general language of effort, plus a few weapons carried over from older icon sets. 🔨 and 🛠️ mark work in progress, ⚙️ stands for systems and settings, and ⚖️ appears in arguments about law and fairness. Emoji 15.1 added the broken chain ⛓️💥 in 2023, formed by joining the existing chains to the collision symbol, and it reads as breaking free.
Unicode tags this one balance, justice and libra and files it under Objects → Tools.
Copy variants
balance scale carries a variation selector (U+FE0F) that forces colour rendering. Drop it and the same character renders as monochrome text.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
How ⚖️ is built
This emoji is more than one codepoint. Each part below is a character in its own right.
- ⚖U+2696balance scale
- ·U+FE0FVariation selector (emoji style)
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+2696 U+FE0F | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | ⚖️ | |
| HTML decimal | ⚖️ | |
| CSS | \2696\FE0F | |
| JavaScript | \u{2696}\u{FE0F} | |
| Python | \U00002696\U0000FE0F | |
| Java / C# | \u2696\uFE0F | |
| Rust | \u{2696}\u{fe0f} | |
| Swift | \u{2696}\u{FE0F} | |
| PHP | \u{2696}\u{FE0F} | |
| URL encoded | %E2%9A%96%EF%B8%8F | |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 9A 96 EF B8 8F | |
| UTF-16 bytes | 2696 FE0F | |
| Base64 | 4pqW77iP | |
| Decimal | 9878 65039 | |
| Introduced | Emoji 1.0 (2015) | |
Keywords
Appears in these collections
How to type ⚖️
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “balance scale”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “balance”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type2696and Enter. - HTML — paste
⚖️.
How ⚖️ renders
The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.
- ⚖️Apple
- ⚖️Segoe
- ⚖️Noto
- ⚖️System
Frequently asked questions
What does the ⚖️ balance scale emoji mean?+
⚖️ is the balance scale emoji, tagged balance, justice and libra. Building, fixing and the general language of effort, plus a few weapons carried over from older icon sets. 🔨 and 🛠️ mark work in progress, ⚙️ stands for systems and settings, and ⚖️ appears in arguments about law and fairness. Emoji 15.1 added the broken chain ⛓️💥 in 2023, formed by joining the existing chains to the collision symbol, and it reads as breaking free.
What is the Unicode code for ⚖️?+
balance scale is U+2696 U+FE0F. In HTML that is ⚖️, in CSS \2696\FE0F, and in JavaScript \u{2696}\u{FE0F}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the ⚖️ emoji added?+
balance scale got its emoji presentation in Emoji 1.0 (2015). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.
Related emojis
More emojis from Tools in Objects.
Added in Emoji 1.0 (2015)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as ⚖️ balance scale.