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Abacus Emoji 🧮

What 🧮 means

A square-framed wooden device with a wooden division or a thin plank fitted in the upper half. Within this frame are four sticks, each looped with a couple of movable red beads.

The 🧮 Abacus emoji signifies calculations. This ancient mode of counting and calculating could suggest present-day math or mathematics as well. Overall, this emoji evokes a sense of being good with numbers.

How and when to use it

If you're sharing a picture/video/quote, the caption for which resonates with calculations and numbers, use 🧮. For example, "I may not be good with numbers, but I sure know when things don't add up 🧮".
You could also use 🧮 while advising your buddy about life in general or a particular screw-up he/she is seeking advice for. Like, "It's always good to be calculative when it comes to certain things, mate 🧮. Not everyone will give you the exact details if you forget them".
Apart from calculations, 🧮 represents counting too. If you're talking about 'counting' in your post caption or conversation, bring in the abacus! For instance, "Don't count the days, make the days count 🧮".
If your post caption, text message, or any format has the word 'math' or the essence of it, you could use 🧮. Like, "Life is like math 🧮. If it's too easy, then something is wrong".
🧮 can also be used as a calculator in any framework! (also, there isn't a calculator emoji. So this is a good make-do).

Other Names

🧮 Calculator
🧮 Counting Device
🧮 Wooden Frame With Beads
🧮 Counting Beads
🧮 Mathematics
🧮 Calculations

The lowdown

Category: Objects › computer
Codepoints: U+1F9EE
Emoji version: Emoji 11.0
Shortcodes: :abacus:
Keywords: abacus, calculation, calculator

How it looks across platforms

Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.