The magnet emoji is the classic U-shaped horseshoe, the kind your science teacher waved around to pick up paper clips. On Apple/iOS, it’s a glossy red curve with metallic gray pole caps, shaded like a tiny 3D prop and tilted at a slight angle—clean, toy-lab aesthetic. Other platforms sometimes color the ends differently to hint at polarity, but the iOS look is straight-up retro lab gear you could imagine sticking to a fridge door. Visually, it screams “N/S poles,” “opposites attract,” and “this will 100% steal your bobby pins.”
Online, it’s shorthand for attraction in every flavor: flirty “I’m drawn to you,” manifestation “money magnet,” and self-roast “I’m a drama magnet.” People drop it under irresistible sales, clickbait, or chaotic friend groups that somehow pull in more chaos. It pairs well with sparkles or hearts to suggest chemistry, or with eye-roll emojis for “ugh, I’m a trouble magnet.” Meme-wise, it nods to the immortal “magnets, how do they work?” joke and even Magneto energy when someone’s pulling a crowd. Basically, if something’s pulling you in—a person, a trend, a snack at 2 a.m.—this emoji does the heavy lifting.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 1614 of 2393 |
| Apple/iOS Picture |  |
| Google Android Picture | Image not available |
| Google Hangouts Picture | Image not available |
| Twitter.com Picture | Image not available |
| LG Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Samsung Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Phantom Open Emoji Picture | Not created yet |
| ASCII Conversion | |
| "Short Code" Name | |
| Keywords |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 12 - 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) | 1f9f2 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F9F2 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 129522 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0xA7 0xB2 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F A7 B2 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 247 262 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83E 0xDDF2 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83eddf2 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55358 56818 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F9F2 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F9F2 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 129522 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F9F2" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\xa7\xb2" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83E\uDDF2" |
