A wood-cased pencil sharpened to a graphite point, the one writing tool on the emoji keyboard built to be erased rather than committed to. It suits schoolwork and rough sketches, and "pencil me in" borrows that same erasability for any plan that isn't locked down yet.
What ✏️ means
An upside-down pencil facing to the left, in such a way that the sharpened led in at the bottom, continued with a short yellow body and ending in a metal rim that has a round piece of rubber attached to it.
First, above anything else, the ✏️ Pencil emoji signifies childhood; the time when we used pencils the most. Secondarily, this emoji could suggest sketching, drawing, rough ideas, erasability, and something that's not concrete.
How and when to use it
- Anything written with a pencil is easy to erase. Hence, ✏️ may also be used in the contexts of something erasable. For example, "I may not be able to erase the past, but I sure can rewrite the future ✏️".
- Pencils make mistakes easier to fix; no damage done to the paper, nor to the content. So, you may also use ✏️ while talking about mistakes either in a post caption or a textual conversation. Like, "It's alright to make mistakes, man, as long as you learn from them ✏️".
- Since pencil writing is easy to fade/erase, ✏️ could also signify that something is not final or concrete. For instance, "We've just made pointers. Nothing's settled yet ✏️".
- If you're posting or reposting some happy and good-vibes content about schooling, childhood, etc, you could use ✏️ in the caption.
- Use ✏️ in the caption even while sharing artistic posts or reposts related to drawing, sketching, and any other art that uses a pencil (including shavings).
Other Names
- ✏️ Pencil With Eraser
- ✏️ Scribble
- ✏️ Sketching Pencil
- ✏️ Writing
- ✏️ Scrawl
- ✏️ Jot Down
- ✏️ Pencil Drawing
The lowdown
- Category
- Objects › writing
- Codepoints
U+270F U+FE0F- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.6
- Shortcodes
:pencil2:GitHub- Keywords
- pencil
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 — ✏️ Pencil or 🌶️ Hot Pepper?
Runs with a crowd
✏️ keeps company in school emojis — tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.