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light bulb Emoji
💡 light bulb: copy and paste this emoji, see its Unicode codepoint and find related emoji in the Objects category.
- Unicode codepoint
- U+1F4A1
- Category
- Objects
- Introduced in
- Emoji version 0.6 (2010)
- Skin tones
- Not applicable
- Gender forms
- Not applicable
Also known as
bulb comic electric idea light
How it looks on your device
The glyph above is rendered by your own operating system or browser, so it may look slightly different on Windows, Android or iOS - that's normal, each platform ships its own emoji artwork for the same underlying character.
What it means
A light bulb: an idea, inspiration, a realisation, or a tip.
How people use it
- Sharing an idea
- Marking a tip or insight in a document
- A sudden realisation
Examples
- idea 💡 what if we...
- 💡 tip: use the keyboard shortcut
- just realised 💡
Shortcodes
Type one of these (including the colons) to insert the emoji on that platform.
- GitHub
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:bulb: - Slack
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:bulb: