✐
Upper Right Pencil
- Unicode
- U+2710
- Category
- Dingbats
- HTML Entity
- ✐
- CSS
- \2710
The Upper Right Pencil symbol (✐) is a classic typographic dingbat depicting a standard pencil angled towards the top right corner. Originally part of the iconic ITC Zapf Dingbats font collection, it was incorporated into the Unicode standard to preserve compatibility with legacy documents. Today, it is frequently used in digital interfaces as an "edit" icon, in digital note-taking applications, or as a creative bullet point in text formatting.
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt + 10000
- macOS
- Control + Command + Space then search "pencil"
- Linux
- Ctrl + Shift + U then 2710
- HTML
- ✐ or ✐
In Programming
While not used as a standard programming operator, this symbol is frequently implemented in frontend development and command-line interfaces to visually represent "edit" or "write" actions.
Tags
annotation
bullet point
dingbat
edit
edit icon
editing tool
note-taking
pencil
pencil icon
text formatting
write
writing symbol