🔎


🔎 U+1F50E, 🔎
RIGHT-POINTING MAGNIFYING GLASS
← 🔍
[U+1F50D] 		Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs 🔏 →
[U+1F50F]

Translingual

Description

A right-facing magnifying glass.

Symbol

🔎

  1. Searching; inspecting; investigating.
  2. Detectives.
    • 2019 May 13, “Beauty queen detective 🔎”, in BBC‎:
      [Title]
  3. (graphical user interface) An icon to search something.
    • 2024 May 9, Outlook.com:
      [🔎 appears to the left of the search box.]
  4. (graphical user interface) An icon to zoom in or enlarge content.[1]

Usage notes

Most operating systems near-universally use a left-facing magnifying glass (🔍) to indicate searching.

References
  1. Robin Williams, Steve Cummings (1993) Jargon: An Informal Dictionary of Computer Terms‎, Peachpit Press, →ISBN, page 205: “You might also have a magnifying glass tool, or a menu command for FatBits or a command to Enlarge.”

Further reading
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