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🖌️Paintbrush Emoji
🖌️ paintbrush is encoded at U+1F58C U+FE0F and shipped with Unicode 7.0 (2014). Unicode files it under Objects → Writing, alongside 6 related emojis.
What 🖌️ paintbrush means
Drafting, editing and note taking. 📝 is the workhorse, used for homework, to-do lists and the reply that just says taking notes, while ✏️ suggests something provisional and still open to change. The fountain pen and black nib carry a more formal weight and turn up around signatures, contracts and poetry. 🖍️ reads as childlike or deliberately unserious.
Unicode tags this one painting and files it under Objects → Writing.
Copy variants
paintbrush 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+1F58Cpaintbrush
- ·U+FE0FVariation selector (emoji style)
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F58C U+FE0F | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🖌️ | |
| HTML decimal | 🖌️ | |
| CSS | \1F58C\FE0F | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F58C}\u{FE0F} | |
| Python | \U0001F58C\U0000FE0F | |
| Java / C# | \uD83D\uDD8C\uFE0F | |
| Rust | \u{1f58c}\u{fe0f} | |
| Swift | \u{1F58C}\u{FE0F} | |
| PHP | \u{1F58C}\u{FE0F} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%96%8C%EF%B8%8F | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 96 8C EF B8 8F | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83D DD8C FE0F | |
| Base64 | 8J+WjO+4jw== | |
| Decimal | 128396 65039 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 7.0 (2014) | |
Keywords
- painting
Appears in these collections
How to type 🖌️
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “paintbrush”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “painting”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f58cand 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 🖌️ paintbrush emoji mean?+
🖌️ is the paintbrush emoji, tagged painting. Drafting, editing and note taking. 📝 is the workhorse, used for homework, to-do lists and the reply that just says taking notes, while ✏️ suggests something provisional and still open to change. The fountain pen and black nib carry a more formal weight and turn up around signatures, contracts and poetry. 🖍️ reads as childlike or deliberately unserious.
What is the Unicode code for 🖌️?+
paintbrush is U+1F58C U+FE0F. In HTML that is 🖌️, in CSS \1F58C\FE0F, and in JavaScript \u{1F58C}\u{FE0F}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🖌️ emoji added?+
paintbrush 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 Writing in Objects.
Added in Unicode 7.0 (2014)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🖌️ paintbrush.