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🔍️Magnifying Glass Tilted Left Emoji
The magnifying glass tilted left emoji 🔍️ carries the codepoint U+1F50D U+FE0F and has been in the standard since Unicode 6.0 (2010). It belongs to Objects → Light, Film & Video.
What 🔍️ magnifying glass tilted left means
Filming, photography and the act of looking closely all live here. 🎥 and 🎬️ tag video work, 📸 credits a photo, and the two magnifying glasses cover searching, investigating and zooming in on somebody else's mistake. 💡 means an idea, a convention borrowed from cartoons. The diya lamp 🪔, added in Emoji 12.0 in 2019, appears mainly around Diwali.
Unicode tags this one glass, lab and left and files it under Objects → Light, Film & Video.
Copy variants
magnifying glass tilted left 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+1F50Dmagnifying glass tilted left
- ·U+FE0FVariation selector (emoji style)
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F50D U+FE0F | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🔍️ | |
| HTML decimal | 🔍️ | |
| CSS | \1F50D\FE0F | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F50D}\u{FE0F} | |
| Python | \U0001F50D\U0000FE0F | |
| Java / C# | \uD83D\uDD0D\uFE0F | |
| Rust | \u{1f50d}\u{fe0f} | |
| Swift | \u{1F50D}\u{FE0F} | |
| PHP | \u{1F50D}\u{FE0F} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%94%8D%EF%B8%8F | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 94 8D EF B8 8F | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83D DD0D FE0F | |
| Base64 | 8J+Uje+4jw== | |
| Decimal | 128269 65039 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 6.0 (2010) | |
Keywords
- glass
- lab
- left
- left-pointing
- magnifying
- science
- search
- tilted
- tool
Appears in these collections
How to type 🔍️
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “magnifying glass tilted left”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “glass”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f50dand 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 🔍️ magnifying glass tilted left emoji mean?+
🔍️ is the magnifying glass tilted left emoji, tagged glass, lab and left. Filming, photography and the act of looking closely all live here. 🎥 and 🎬️ tag video work, 📸 credits a photo, and the two magnifying glasses cover searching, investigating and zooming in on somebody else's mistake. 💡 means an idea, a convention borrowed from cartoons. The diya lamp 🪔, added in Emoji 12.0 in 2019, appears mainly around Diwali.
What is the Unicode code for 🔍️?+
magnifying glass tilted left is U+1F50D U+FE0F. In HTML that is 🔍️, in CSS \1F50D\FE0F, and in JavaScript \u{1F50D}\u{FE0F}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🔍️ emoji added?+
magnifying glass tilted left got its emoji presentation in Unicode 6.0 (2010). 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 Light, Film & Video in Objects.
Added in Unicode 6.0 (2010)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🔍️ magnifying glass tilted left.