Think of the input symbols emoji as the keyboard’s secret trapdoor: tap it and suddenly you’re in punctuation land, where ampersands and percent signs run the show. People drop it when talking passwords that look like ancient runes, when a caption needs a comic-style censor bar, or when they’re signaling “switch to the special-characters screen.” It doubles as a clean way to suggest grawlix—the classic #%&! jumble comics use to stand in for spicy language—without actually typing anything NSFW. You’ll also see it in techy chats, UI/UX notes, and coder memes to imply regex chaos or symbol soup.
Definition
A keyboard button with four symbols on it. An input symbol used to switch from a numeric or alphabetic keyboard to a keyboard with symbols, such as @, #, & and $. A user interface emoji.
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Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.
This emoji first appeared in OSX / iOS after the iOS 5 update.
Emoji General Information
Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank)
705 of 2393
Apple/iOS Picture
Google Android Picture
Google Hangouts Picture
Twitter.com Picture
LG Emoji Picture
Samsung Emoji Picture
Phantom Open Emoji Picture
Not created yet
ASCII Conversion
"Short Code" Name
:symbols:
Keywords
Previous Names:
Input Symbol for Symbols
Unicode Category Information
Unicode Category
Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
Unicode Range
1F300–1F5FF
Unicode Subcategory
User Interface Input Status Symbols
Proposed Unicode Information & Notes
Unicode Category
Artifacts
Unicode Subcategory
UI Input Status Symbols
Names & Annotations
INPUT SYMBOL FOR SYMBOLS Old name: SYMBOLS INPUT SYMBOL Temporary Notes: Symbols (〒, ♪, @, %)
Symbol Information
U+1F523 proposed
Proposal Identifier
e-B7F
Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes
DoCoMo
[記号]
KDDI
#505 記号 U+EB00 SJIS-F7D7 JIS-7859
Softbank
[記号]
Emoji Character Encoding Data
Emoji Code Version
iOS 5 - Current
UTF-8 Unicode Character(s)
🔣
UTF-8 Character Count
1
Character(s) In Input
AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS)
🔣
Decimal HTML Entity
🔣
Hexadecimal HTML Entity
🔣
Hex Code Point(s)
1f523
Formal Unicode Notation
U+1F523
Decimal Code Point(s)
128291
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xF0 0x9F 0x94 0xA3
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
F0 9F 94 A3
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
360 237 224 243
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xD83D 0xDD23
UTF-16 Hex
d83ddd23
UTF-16 Dec
55357 56611
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0001F523
UTF-32 Hex
01F523
UTF-32 Dec
128291
Python Src
u"\U0001F523"
PHP Src
"\xf0\x9f\x94\xa3"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uD83D\uDD23"
Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)
