🔎

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

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Description

A right-facing magnifying glass.

Symbol

🔎︎

  1. Searching; inspecting; investigating.
  2. Detectives.
    • 2019 May 13, “Beauty queen detective 🔎”, in BBC‎[2] (in English):
      [Title]
  3. (graphical user interface) An icon to search something.
    • 2025 July 28, 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[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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