🖲️
What 🖲️ means
A round black holder with a pair of matte spots representing buttons that overall enclose a blue ball in between. Sometimes, this emoji is shown with an oval holder and a red ball.
The 🖲️ Trackball emoji essentially represents a replacement for the 🖱️ Mouse. Having the same functions and generally a similar design as the computer mouse, this emoji too signifies navigation and selection.
How and when to use it
- If you're sharing content that has clickable links or any other such formats in it, you may use 🖲️ to signal to your audience that they can click in those specific regions.
- Since a mouse or a trackball is used to navigate and select options on a computer or laptop device, use 🖲️ to suggest exactly that! For instance, "Scroll into this list and select the ones you like most 🖲️" or "You've got to navigate through your options, man 🖲️. I can't do that for you".
- 🖲️ could be used in philosophical frameworks too! "Select the thoughts you want to have and deselect those annoying white noises 🖲️".
- You could generally use 🖲️ in computer contexts; it can be a repost of a trackball/computer sale, a post about a computer course, or just a picture of your new system, anything.
Other Names
- 🖲️ Mouse
- 🖲️ Upside-Down Mouse
- 🖲️ Tracking Device
- 🖲️ Computer Trackball
- 🖲️ Navigating Device
- 🖲️ Blue Trackball
The lowdown
- Category
- Objects › computer
- Codepoints
U+1F5B2 U+FE0F- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.7
- Shortcodes
:trackball:GitHub- Keywords
- computer, trackball
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 — 🖲️ Trackball or 🤣 Rolling on the Floor Laughing?