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🖲️Trackball Emoji
🖲️ trackball — U+1F5B2 U+FE0F, added in Unicode 7.0 (2014). Unicode groups it with the other 14 computer emojis under Objects.
What 🖲️ trackball 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 and files it under Objects → Computer.
Copy variants
trackball 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+1F5B2trackball
- ·U+FE0FVariation selector (emoji style)
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F5B2 U+FE0F | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🖲️ | |
| HTML decimal | 🖲️ | |
| CSS | \1F5B2\FE0F | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F5B2}\u{FE0F} | |
| Python | \U0001F5B2\U0000FE0F | |
| Java / C# | \uD83D\uDDB2\uFE0F | |
| Rust | \u{1f5b2}\u{fe0f} | |
| Swift | \u{1F5B2}\u{FE0F} | |
| PHP | \u{1F5B2}\u{FE0F} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%96%B2%EF%B8%8F | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 96 B2 EF B8 8F | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83D DDB2 FE0F | |
| Base64 | 8J+Wsu+4jw== | |
| Decimal | 128434 65039 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 7.0 (2014) | |
Keywords
Appears in these collections
How to type 🖲️
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “trackball”. - 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 type1f5b2and 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 🖲️ trackball emoji mean?+
🖲️ is the trackball emoji, tagged computer. 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 🖲️?+
trackball is U+1F5B2 U+FE0F. In HTML that is 🖲️, in CSS \1F5B2\FE0F, and in JavaScript \u{1F5B2}\u{FE0F}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🖲️ emoji added?+
trackball 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 🖲️ trackball.