U+1F589 "🖉" Lower Left Pencil Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🖉
U+1F589 "🖉" Lower Left Pencil is a typographic symbol that depicts a traditional wooden pencil oriented diagonally with its tip pointing upward and to the right, resembling the classic icon for writing, editing, or annotation. It is part of the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block, introduced in Unicode 7.0 in 2014, and is often used in digital interfaces or documents to represent editing tools, note-taking, or a marking function, distinct from the simpler pencil emoji U+270F.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F589 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Lower Left Pencil |
| 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 0x96 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83D 0xDD89 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F589 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83d\udd89 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Ideographic |
| Script | Common |
| Script Extensions | Common |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Vertical Orientation | Upright |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |