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🖱️Computer Mouse Emoji
Tagged computer, mouse, 🖱️ computer mouse sits in Unicode's Computer group inside Objects. It was introduced in Unicode 7.0 (2014) at U+1F5B1 U+FE0F.
What 🖱️ computer mouse means
Remote work, tech support and desk setup photos draw on this group, with 💻️ standing in for a job or a study session far more often than for a specific machine. The floppy disk 💾 is the clearest case of an emoji outliving its object: the hardware disappeared decades ago, but the shape survives as the save icon in most software.
Unicode tags this one computer, mouse and files it under Objects → Computer.
Copy variants
computer mouse 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+1F5B1computer mouse
- ·U+FE0FVariation selector (emoji style)
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F5B1 U+FE0F | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🖱️ | |
| HTML decimal | 🖱️ | |
| CSS | \1F5B1\FE0F | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F5B1}\u{FE0F} | |
| Python | \U0001F5B1\U0000FE0F | |
| Java / C# | \uD83D\uDDB1\uFE0F | |
| Rust | \u{1f5b1}\u{fe0f} | |
| Swift | \u{1F5B1}\u{FE0F} | |
| PHP | \u{1F5B1}\u{FE0F} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%96%B1%EF%B8%8F | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 96 B1 EF B8 8F | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83D DDB1 FE0F | |
| Base64 | 8J+Wse+4jw== | |
| Decimal | 128433 65039 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 7.0 (2014) | |
Keywords
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How to type 🖱️
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “computer mouse”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “computer”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f5b1and 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 🖱️ computer mouse emoji mean?+
🖱️ is the computer mouse emoji, tagged computer, mouse. Remote work, tech support and desk setup photos draw on this group, with 💻️ standing in for a job or a study session far more often than for a specific machine. The floppy disk 💾 is the clearest case of an emoji outliving its object: the hardware disappeared decades ago, but the shape survives as the save icon in most software.
What is the Unicode code for 🖱️?+
computer mouse is U+1F5B1 U+FE0F. In HTML that is 🖱️, in CSS \1F5B1\FE0F, and in JavaScript \u{1F5B1}\u{FE0F}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🖱️ emoji added?+
computer mouse got its emoji presentation in Unicode 7.0 (2014). 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 Computer in Objects.
Added in Unicode 7.0 (2014)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🖱️ computer mouse.