✎
Pencil
- Unicode
- U+270E
- Category
- Dingbats
- HTML Entity
- ✎
- CSS
- \270E
The ✎ symbol, officially known as the Lower Right Pencil, represents a classic wooden pencil angled downwards. Originating from the ITC Zapf Dingbats font collection, it was added to Unicode in 1993 and remains a staple in digital typography. Today, it is universally recognized in user interfaces as the standard icon for "edit" or "modify" actions, as well as a decorative bullet point for notes and writing.
How to Type
- Windows
- Win + . then search "pencil", or type 270E followed by Alt + X in Microsoft Word
- macOS
- Control + Command + Space then search "pencil"
- Linux
- Ctrl + Shift + U, type 270E, then Enter
- HTML
- ✐ or ✎
In Programming
Developers frequently use the ✎ symbol in frontend web development and UI design as an inline glyph for "edit" buttons or to indicate dynamically editable text fields.
Tags
Zapf Dingbats
annotation
dingbat
dingbat pencil
draw
drawing icon
edit
edit icon
handwriting
lower right pencil
modify
note-taking
notes
pencil
pencil icon
text edit
write
writing symbol