Highlighter Emoji

Unicode has no emoji named highlighter: press Copy for the pen and yellow square, or pick highlighted text.

Highlighter Emoji

🖊️🟨HighlighterU+1F58A U+FE0F U+1F7E8Ready to copy

60 items. Tap one to copy it.

Closest emoji 18

Highlight blocks 7

Highlighted text 7

Typed highlighters 6

Highlighter drawings 2

Study lines 6

Highlighter combos 14

Next step Books, notebooks and reading linesNext: pushpins and pinned notes

How it works

Wikipedia calls a highlighter a fluorescent pen and gives yellow as its most common colour. So the highlighter emoji here is Pen, then Yellow square, one of six emoji CLDR files under yellow.

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Marker, crayon and the colours, by the search words

CLDR is the word list behind emoji search. The only emoji it files under marker is Bookmark tabs, and Crayon and Pencil have one search word each, their own names. Highlight, fluorescent and neon lead nowhere. Squares come in green, orange, blue and purple as well, and none is pink.

  • 蛍光ペン, the Japanese word for a highlighter, opens with 蛍, a glow-worm in the Unihan database.

Questions and answers

Is there a highlighter emoji?

Not by that name. Unicode’s emoji list, version 18.0, has a pen, a fountain pen, a pencil, a crayon and a paintbrush, and no highlighter. 🖊️🟨, Pen then Yellow square, is the nearest pair.

Is there a green, blue or pink highlighter emoji?

Swap the square: 🖊️🟩 is green, 🖊️🟧 orange, 🖊️🟦 blue and 🖊️🟪 purple. The combo Highlighter set copies five squares in a row. Wikipedia lists pink among highlighter colours, and no emoji is a pink square.

Is there an emoji for the makeup highlighter?

No emoji is named for that either. Wiktionary’s second sense of highlighter is a cosmetic that reflects light, so the combo Highlighter, the cosmetic puts Sparkles after Mirror.

All 60 items

Closest emoji 18

  • Blue square U+1F7E6. Filed under blue. Emoji 12.0.
  • Bookmark tabs U+1F4D1. The only emoji filed under marker. Emoji 0.6.
  • Books U+1F4DA. Filed under study and reading. Emoji 0.6.
  • Crayon U+1F58D U+FE0F. Its only search word is crayon. Emoji 0.7.
  • Fountain pen U+1F58B U+FE0F. Filed under fountain and pen. Emoji 0.7.
  • Glowing star U+1F31F. The only emoji filed under glow. Emoji 0.6.
  • Green square U+1F7E9. Filed under green. Emoji 12.0.
  • Highlighter Pen, then yellow square.
  • Light bulb U+1F4A1. Filed under idea. Emoji 0.6.
  • Memo U+1F4DD. Filed under notes and pencil. Emoji 0.6.
  • Open book U+1F4D6. Filed under reading and book. Emoji 0.6.
  • Orange square U+1F7E7. Filed under orange. Emoji 12.0.
  • Page facing up U+1F4C4. Filed under page and paper. Emoji 0.6.
  • Pen U+1F58A U+FE0F. Its search words are ballpoint and pen. Emoji 0.7.
  • Pencil U+270F U+FE0F. Its only search word is pencil. Emoji 0.6.
  • Purple square U+1F7EA. Filed under purple. Emoji 12.0.
  • Straight ruler U+1F4CF. Filed under ruler and straightedge. Emoji 0.6.
  • Yellow square U+1F7E8. One of six emoji filed under yellow. Emoji 12.0.
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Highlight blocks 7

  • Black parallelogram U+25B0. A slanted stroke.
  • Black rectangle U+25AC. One short stroke. Alt+22 in code page 437.
  • Dark shade U+2593. Alt+178 in code page 437.
  • Full block U+2588. A solid stroke. Alt+219 where Alt codes follow code page 437.
  • Light shade U+2591. Alt+176 in code page 437. The lightest of the three shades.
  • Lower one eighth block U+2581. A thin line along the bottom. Repeat it under a word.
  • Medium shade U+2592. Alt+177 in code page 437.

Highlighted text 7

  • 🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨 A line of yellow, for the row above or below your words.
  • k̲e̲y̲ ̲p̲o̲i̲n̲t̲ Each letter is followed by U+0332, Combining low line, which Unicode notes as underline.
  • >>> key point <<< Plain ASCII, for where blocks turn into empty boxes.
  • ▓▒░ key point ░▒▓ The shade fades in, then out.
  • ▒▒ key point ▒▒ Medium shade on both sides. Type over key point.
  • 🟨 key point 🟨 A yellow square on each side.
  • <mark>key point</mark> On a web page the HTML mark element highlights text in yellow, by Wikipedia.

Typed highlighters 6

  • [=====]> A highlighter in plain ASCII: a barrel and a tip.
  • [=====]> ▒▒▒▒▒▒ The same pen, mid-stroke.
  • [==]▬▬▬▬▰ A cap, a barrel and a slanted tip.
  • 熒光筆 Yíngguāngbǐ, a highlighter in Chinese, by Wiktionary: shine, light, writing brush.
  • 蛍光ペン Keikō pen, a highlighter in Japanese, by Wiktionary.
  • surligneur · Textmarker · resaltador A highlighter in French, German and Spanish, by Wiktionary.

Highlighter drawings 2

  • Highlighted notes, drawn Seven lines: a page of notes with a line and a half marked.
  • Highlighter, drawn Four lines: a cap, a barrel with its label and a tip. Needs monospaced text.

Study lines 6

  • highlighted the whole page. again For a chapter where everything looked important.
  • if everything is yellow, nothing is For the same chapter, a day later.
  • lost the cap. it is drying as we speak For a pen left open on the desk.
  • new highlighters, same exam For the first day of revision.
  • ran out of yellow on page ___ For a long reading list. Fill in the page.
  • yellow = dates, green = names A colour code. Swap in your own.

Highlighter combos 14

  • Blue highlighter Pen, then blue square.
  • Colour coded Open book, then yellow square, then green square, then blue square.
  • Dried out Pen, then yellow square, then desert.
  • Green highlighter Pen, then green square.
  • Highlighter set Yellow square, then green square, then orange square, then blue square, then purple square.
  • Highlighter, the cosmetic Mirror, then sparkles.
  • Key point Yellow square, then light bulb.
  • Late revision Books, then pen, then yellow square, then hot beverage.
  • Marked up Page facing up, then yellow square, three times.
  • Notes, highlighted Memo, then pen, then yellow square.
  • Orange highlighter Pen, then orange square.
  • Purple highlighter Pen, then purple square.
  • Ruled and highlighted Straight ruler, then pen, then yellow square.
  • Under a black light Yellow square, then flashlight, then glowing star.

How this list was compiled: Built on 2026-10-09 from sources read that day. The emoji, their names, code points and Emoji version numbers are from the Unicode emoji list, version 18.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/emoji/emoji-test.txt); names are the CLDR short names printed in that file. Search words are from the CLDR English annotations (https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotations/en.xml and https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotationsDerived/en.xml). Unicode has no emoji named highlighter: no emoji name, no CLDR search word and no character name in UnicodeData.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt), holds highlighter, highlight, highlighting, fluorescent or neon. CLDR files marker under Bookmark tabs alone, yellow under six emoji, glow under Glowing star alone; Pen has the search words ballpoint and pen, and Crayon and Pencil one word each; the emoji list has squares in red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple and brown and none in pink. The Alt codes (Alt+219, 178, 177, 176 and 22) are from Wikipedia, Code page 437 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_437, CC BY-SA 4.0). That U+0332, Combining low line, is an underline is Unicode’s own note in NamesList.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/NamesList.txt). The meanings of the Han characters are the kDefinition lines of the Unihan database, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/Unihan.zip). That a highlighter is also called a fluorescent pen and marks text with a vivid, translucent colour, that yellow is the most common colour and orange, red, pink, purple, blue and green exist, that the ink glows under black light, and that the HTML mark element highlights text in yellow are from Wikipedia, Highlighter (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highlighter, CC BY-SA 4.0). That a highlighter is a marker pen used to highlight text and, in a second sense, a cosmetic that reflects light, and the words for it in Japanese, Chinese, French, German and Spanish, are from Wiktionary, highlighter (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/highlighter, CC BY-SA 4.0). The typed lines, the drawings, the caption lines and the combos are this site’s own work. Licence: own work: the selection, the combo names, the text drawings and the notes are this site's own. Emoji names, code points and search words are Unicode and CLDR data and Unihan data, used under the Unicode License v3 (https://www.unicode.org/license.txt). Facts from Wikipedia and Wiktionary are restated in this site's own words and credited in the source line.

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