Pencil
Part of Stars & Dingbats
Pencil has no standard Windows Alt code. Copy the character directly, or use its HTML entity or Unicode value instead.
- Alt code
- None
- HTML entity
- ✏
- Unicode
- U+270F
About this symbol
The pencil is the usual icon for edit in software and on websites. Modern pencils are filled with a mixture of graphite and clay, a method patented by the French inventor Nicolas-Jacques Conté in 1795.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- PENCIL
- Type
- Symbol
- Unicode block
- Dingbats
- Unicode group
- Miscellaneous
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
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