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✏️ Pencil
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✏️ Emoji meaning
Sketching, drawing, writing, correcting, drafts, and notes.
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✏️ Meaning
My child is going to school! The writing instrument is often used by writing beginners, but also for drawings, sketches, shorthand or notes.
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Commonly confused with
Color Variant
Black nib vs pencil; both symbolise writing, nib vs pencil detail may not be important.
Same Shape
Pencil vs pen; both writing utensils used for text or drawing.
Emoji History
Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexiconFirst included
The emoji “Pencil” was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and added to Emoji 0.6 .
In the release of Emoji 3.0 and Unicode 9.0 in 2016 there was 1 change.
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+ pencil
