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Calamita

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.

Calamita è stata approvata come parte di Unicode 11.0 nel 2018 ed è stata aggiunta a Emoji 11.0 nel 2018.