A round magnifying glass with its lens angled to the right, this one works as a search or zoom icon much like 🔍 Magnifying Glass Tilted Left. It gets used for investigating, scrutinizing, or looking closely at something, though the direction rarely carries its own meaning.
What 🔎 means
A round lens in a dark frame with the handle running down to the right. The 🔎 Magnifying Glass Tilted Right emoji means searching, zooming in, or having a proper look at something — the same job as 🔍 Magnifying Glass Tilted Left, just mirrored.
The tilt carries no meaning of its own. Both versions exist because the original Japanese carrier sets shipped a left-facing and a right-facing magnifier, and Unicode kept the pair when it encoded them. Pick whichever one sits better next to the words around it.
How and when to use it
- Digging into something, seriously or otherwise: "I think we keep an eye on this one for a while 🔎" or "Let's look into it together 🔎".
- Standing in for a search box. Dropped in front of a phrase, 🔎 turns it into a query — "🔎 cheap flights november" needs no verb.
- Macro photography and close-up detail shots, where the whole point is seeing more than the naked eye does.
- Announcing a find. "Found the receipt 🔎" lands better than a plain full stop.
- Detective energy in general — true crime threads, missing-sock investigations, anything where someone is playing sleuth.
Other Names
- 🔎 Search Icon
- 🔎 Magnifier
- 🔎 Zoom In
- 🔎 Right-Pointing Magnifying Glass
- 🔎 Find
- 🔎 Investigate
- 🔎 Macro Photography
The lowdown
- Category
- Objects › light & video
- Codepoints
U+1F50E- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.6
- Shortcodes
:mag_right:- Keywords
- contact, glass, lab, magnifying, right, right-pointing, science, search, tilted, tool
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.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🔎 Magnifying Glass Tilted Right or 🇻🇳 Flag: Vietnam?