U+1F526 "🔦" Electric Torch Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🔦
U+1F526 "🔦" Electric Torch is a pictographic representation of a handheld, battery-powered flashlight, typically depicted as a cylindrical metal or plastic device with a bright, glowing beam of light extending from its front lens. Commonly used in digital communication to symbolize illumination, discovery, or the act of searching in the dark, it also serves as a metaphorical icon for insight, guidance, or clarity in a situation. The character falls under the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block and was added to the Unicode Standard in 2010 as part of Unicode 6.0, reflecting the growing demand for expressive emoji in text-based conversations.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F526 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Electric Torch |
| Block | Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 🔦 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 🔦 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9F 0x94 0xA6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83D 0xDD26 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F526 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83d\udd26 |