flashlight

Group: Objects · Subgroup: Light video · Emoji 0.6

Keywords

electric
flashlight
light
tool
torch

About this character

flashlight belongs to the Objects group and is encoded at U+1F526. It was added in Unicode 0.6.

Shortcode

Chat apps such as Slack, Discord and GitHub accept this shortcode instead of the character itself.

Technical codes

Code point: U+1F526
Hex: 1F526
Decimal: 128294
HTML: 🔦
CSS: \1F526
JavaScript: \u{1F526}
Python: \U0001F526
UTF-8: F0 9F 94 A6

The same character is drawn differently by each operating system and font.

movie camera U+1F3A5
film frames U+1F39E
film projector U+1F4FD
clapper board U+1F3AC
television U+1F4FA
camera U+1F4F7
camera with flash U+1F4F8
video camera U+1F4F9
videocassette U+1F4FC
magnifying glass tilted left U+1F50D
magnifying glass tilted right U+1F50E
candle U+1F56F
light bulb U+1F4A1
red paper lantern U+1F3EE
diya lamp U+1FA94

Questions

Why does this emoji look different on my phone?

Unicode standardises the meaning of a character, not its drawing. Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung each ship their own artwork, so the same code point changes shape between devices.

Does copying work everywhere?

The character is copied as plain text, so it pastes into any app that accepts text. If the receiving app has no font for it, you will see an empty box instead.