🔎

Text style	Emoji style
🔎︎	🔎️
Text style is forced with ⟨︎⟩ and emoji style with ⟨️⟩.
🔎 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^[2]:

     [Title]

3. (graphical user interface) An icon to search something.
   • 2024 December 20, Outlook.com:

     [🔎 appears to the left of the search box.]

4. (graphical user interface) An icon to zoom in or enlarge content.

Usage notes

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

Further reading

• “right-pointing magnifying glass”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• 🔎 in Emojipedia, 2013–present.