Part alternation mark

Emoji 1.0 · Symbols · :part_alternation_mark:

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Also known as: alternation, mark, part

How it looks elsewhere

〽️ Your device
〽︎ Typographs
part alternation mark on Twemoji Twemoji
part alternation mark on Noto Noto
part alternation mark on Fluent Fluent
part alternation mark on OpenMoji OpenMoji

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What Part alternation mark Means

People reach for 〽️ when they mean alternation, mark, part. Searching Snagmoji for any of those words finds it.

Part alternation mark is one of the symbols emoji, alongside ⚕️ ♻️ ⚜️ 🔱 📛 and 16 more in the same family.

History & Platforms

Part alternation mark was added in 2010 as part of Unicode 6.0. It has artwork in Twemoji, Google's Noto, Microsoft's Fluent, OpenMoji. Apple, Samsung and WhatsApp draw it in their own styles, which is why the same emoji can look a little different from phone to phone.

Under the hood 〽️ is the 2-code-point sequence U+303D U+FE0F, and on GitHub, Slack and most chat apps you can type it as :part_alternation_mark:.

How To Use 〽️

  • Copy it: click the big emoji above, or the "Snag it" button.
  • Chain it: on the main page, Shift+click emoji to build a string like 〽️⚕️♻️ and copy it all at once.
  • Type it: in Slack, GitHub and Discord, type :part_alternation_mark: and it converts. On Windows press Win+. and on Mac press Ctrl+Cmd+Space to open the system picker.
  • Use it in code: the HTML entity, JavaScript and CSS escapes are in the "Copy as code" box above.

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