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black pushpin

Black Pushpin

🖈 brings the pin-on-a-board idea to messages: it singles out a detail to revisit. Its outline comes from the font because it is a text character.

Text symbol
Search it as
pushpin · thumbtack · marker
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What 🖈 means

It marks something worth noticing or revisiting.

A pushpin holds a note to a board; 🖈 brings that marker idea into a message.

A short flat-headed tack is recorded by the mid-15th century; the English word “thumbtack” is recorded from 1884. A 1920 patent filing describes one way to fasten paper to a board.

What does it mean when someone sends 🖈?

It marks the specific item the sender has in mind.

The surrounding words show what they want you to notice; treat it as a practical cue, not proof of a feeling.

Neutral and practical, like a marker on a note.

It does not mean “meet here” without a location.

Don't confuse it with

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📌
Pushpin
No: 📌 is a separate character, not a font variant of 🖈.
📍
Round Pushpin
📍 is clearer when the message identifies a place.

Questions people ask

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Why does 🖈 show as a box on some devices?

Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.

How to type 🖈

Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 1F588, then Alt+X to get 🖈.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “black pushpin”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1f588, then Enter or Space.
HTML
🖈
CSS
\1F588
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🖈
HTML hex
🖈
CSS content
content: "\1F588";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%96%88
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On screen
1
Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

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