U+1FAA1 "🪡" Sewing Needle Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🪡
U+1FAA1 "🪡" Sewing Needle is a pictographic representation of a sewing needle, included in the Symbols and Pictographs Extended-A block and added to the standard in 2021 as part of Unicode 14.0. This character visually depicts a slender, pointed metal tool with an eye at one end, commonly used for stitching fabrics, mending clothes, or engaging in needlework crafts. In digital communication, it serves as a symbol for sewing, tailoring, embroidery, and related activities, often appearing in contexts discussing fashion design, DIY projects, or the concept of mending and repairing. Its addition to the Unicode repertoire reflects the ongoing effort to represent a wider range of everyday cultural objects and tools in text and emoji form.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1FAA1 |
| Version Added | 13.0 |
| Name | Sewing Needle |
| Block | Symbols and Pictographs Extended-A |
| 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 0xAA 0xA1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83E 0xDEA1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001FAA1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83e\udea1 |