🧲 Magnet

A horseshoe magnet, as used to pick up iron. Depicted at various angles in red with silver-tipped poles.

Commonly used for various content concerning literal and figurative magnetism and attraction. May also be used in various science-related contexts more generally.

Twitter’s design features two electric bolts coming from its poles. WhatsApp’s horseshoe is half blue, denoting an opposite magnetic pole.

Magnet was approved as part of Unicode 11.0 in 2018 and added to Emoji 11.0 in 2018.

🚩 New in 2018: requires updated software.