Magnifying Glass Emoji

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). Magnifying glass tilted left is U+1F50D and Magnifying glass tilted right U+1F50E, both Emoji 0.6, printed one after the other in the group Objects, subgroup light & video. CLDR files those two, and no other emoji, under search, magnifying and tilted; both are also under glass, lab, science and tool, and only the right one is under contact, with Telescope and Satellite antenna. No emoji name and no search word holds spyglass or magnify; CLDR files spy under Detective, its two gendered forms and Disguised face. Character names are from UnicodeData.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt): Left-pointing magnifying glass and Right-pointing magnifying glass are the only characters named for one; Telephone recorder is U+2315 and Neuter U+26B2. Unicode’s notes (search on U+1F50D, get more details on U+1F50E) are from NamesList.txt (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/NamesList.txt); only U+1F50D has a text style row in https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/emoji/emoji-variation-sequences.txt. The three Han characters are defined as in the Unihan database, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/Unihan.zip). What a magnifying glass is, its use as a symbol for searching or zooming and its place in detective fiction are from Wikipedia, Magnifying glass (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnifying_glass, CC BY-SA 4.0). Code page 437, which the old Alt codes follow, has no magnifying glass (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_437). That some apps turn Alt and a decimal number from 256 to 65,535 into the Unicode character is from Wikipedia, Alt code (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt_code); 8981 is 2315 in decimal. That Alt+X turns the hexadecimal number before the cursor into its character is from Wikipedia, Unicode input (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_input). The words and sayings are as Wiktionary defines them (CC BY-SA 4.0): spyglass (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/spyglass), look into (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/look_into), fine print (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fine_print), needle in a haystack (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/needle_in_a_haystack), zoom in (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/zoom_in), zoom out (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/zoom_out), clue (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/clue), gumshoe (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gumshoe) and loupe (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/loupe). The four typed glasses, the two drawings, the five lines and the eleven 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, with definitions from the Unihan database, 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.