⚖️ Balance Scale

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Emoji Meaning

1

A gleaming golden balance scale — a timeless emblem of justice and the law.

2

This antique balance, with two pans suspended from a beam, is commonly used in the judicial system, symbolizing decisions reached solely on the strength of the arguments presented, without outside influence.

A symbol of justice, wisdom, and prudence. It can also be used literally when you need to weigh something to determine its mass.

Also Known As

  • ⚖️ Scales of Justice

Apple Name

  • ⚖️ Scales

Unicode Name

  • ⚖️ Scales

⚖️ Emoji Codes

Codepoints

U+2696 U+FE0F

Shortcodes

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For developers

URL escape code %E2%9A%96%EF%B8%8F
Punycode xn--u7h
Bytes (UTF-8) E2 9A 96 EF B8 8F
JavaScript, JSON, Java \u2696\uFE0F
C, C++, Python \u2696\uFE0F
CSS \2696 \FE0F
PHP, Ruby \u{2696}\u{FE0F}
Perl \x{2696}\x{FE0F}
HTML hex ⚖️
HTML dec ⚖️

Tags: balance, justice, Libra, cale, zodiac

Category: Objects

Subgroup: Tool