U+2710 "✐" Upper Right Pencil Unicode Character

U+2710 "✐" Upper Right Pencil is a typographic symbol that depicts a pencil with its writing tip oriented toward the upper right corner of the bounding box, subtly angled downward as if in the act of writing or drawing. It belongs to the Dingbats block and is often used in digital interfaces, bullet lists, or as a decorative marker to denote editing, note taking, or creative input. While less commonly recognized than the more standard pencil emoji, this character serves as a concise, monochrome glyph for indicating where text should be inserted or where a user is invited to write. Its clean, abstract design makes it useful in documents, forms, and user interface elements where a simple visual prompt for writing or notation is desired.

General Properties

Code Point	U+2710
Version Added	1.1
Name	Upper Right Pencil
Block	Dingbats
General Category	Other Symbol
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Other Neutral

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	✐
HTML Hex Encoding	✐
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE2 0x9C 0x90
UTF-16 Encoding	0x2710
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00002710
C/C++/Java Escape	\u2710

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	Alphabetic
Script	Common
Script Extensions	Common
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
Pattern Syntax	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Upright
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	Other