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A commonly recognised share icon looks like this:

Share Icon

I'm guessing there must be (surely) a Unicode symbol out there for this, but so far - despite pretty thorough searching - I've come up empty-handed.

I note that the approved list of new emojis for 2020 include:

  • a dodo
  • a rollerboot
  • a rainbow piñata

I'm concluding it's unlikely that Unicode would have got as far as approving these but not yet approving a share icon.

What's the Unicode for the share icon above, please?

Or do I need to use SVG, instead?

Rounin
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While the share symbol is not in the Unicode range, maybe this workaround will help you: http://jsfiddle.net/chillybang/a7v5obqj/

HTML

<span class="share">&lt;</span>

CSS

.share {
    font-weight: bold;
    position: relative;
}
.share:before {
    content: ".";
    font-size: 2.2em;
    position: absolute;
    bottom: -2.5px;
    left: -4px;
}
.share:after {
    content: ":";
    font-size: 2em;
    position: absolute;
    bottom: -6px;
    right: -7px;
}
Evgeniy
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Its a hack, but it works

<span style="transform: rotate(90deg);">V</span>
Justin Levene
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There isn't one, but perhaps a megaphone would suffice: https://unicode-table.com/en/1F4E3/

user1718888
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