U+1F58D "🖍" Lower Left Crayon Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🖍
U+1F58D "🖍" Lower Left Crayon is a pictographic representation of a crayon oriented at a diagonal angle, typically depicted with a colorful wax body and a pointed tip, often shown in a bright red or green color in most fonts and platforms. This character belongs to the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block and was introduced to Unicode in version 7.0 in 2014, primarily serving as a visual symbol for art, drawing, creativity, or childhood activities. It is frequently used in digital communication to evoke themes of coloring, artistic expression, or education, and should not be confused with the similarly pitched "Lower Right Pencil" or other writing tool emojis.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F58D |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Lower Left Crayon |
| 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 0x8D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83D 0xDD8D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F58D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83d\udd8d |
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 |
| Emoji | Yes |
| Extended Pictographic | Yes |