🔎

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

Translingual[edit]

Description[edit]

A right-facing magnifying glass.

Symbol[edit]

🔎

  1. Searching; inspecting; investigating.
  2. Detectives.
    • 2019 May 13, “Beauty queen detective 🔎”, in BBC[2]:
      [Title]
  3. (graphical user interface) An icon to search something.
    • 2024 May 5, 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[edit]

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

References[edit]

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

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