memo

Group: Objects · Subgroup: Writing · Emoji 0.6

Keywords

communication
media
memo
notes
pencil

About this character

memo belongs to the Objects group and is encoded at U+1F4DD. 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+1F4DD
Hex: 1F4DD
Decimal: 128221
HTML: 📝
CSS: \1F4DD
JavaScript: \u{1F4DD}
Python: \U0001F4DD
UTF-8: F0 9F 93 9D

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

pencil U+270F
black nib U+2712
fountain pen U+1F58B
pen U+1F58A
paintbrush U+1F58C
crayon U+1F58D

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.