Is there a Unicode character for the share icon?

Question

I ve searched many times in google ,stackoverflow,html chars sites but I did not find what I need please help me about this:

I need this icon, representing a share action, as html unicode sequence:

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thanks in advance

Question about the existence of characters are off-topic here. Besides, if you need something *for HTML*, then you are probably asking a wrong question. The existence of a character would not help you if e.g. it is so new that few if any fonts contain it. — Jukka K. Korpela, Apr 29 '14 at 07:59
Note, this icon [is trademarked](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Share_icon) and had some legal issues. That's probably the reason why it was not added to unicode. — Klesun, Apr 27 '21 at 12:51

gvee · Accepted Answer · 2019-07-22T07:10:17.140

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Short answer: no.

Long answer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unicode_characters

As a minor aside / workaround for a bit of fun:

DEMO: http://jsfiddle.net/8rzgv/

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

.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;
}

edited Jul 22 '19 at 07:10

answered Apr 29 '14 at 07:47

gvee

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so do you know any share icon chars in html ? – CompEng Apr 29 '14 at 07:48
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@ErsinGülbahar Why don'y you look at the Wikipedia link and have a browse? `;-)` – gvee Apr 29 '14 at 07:49
I look but maybe I miss :( there are hundreds – CompEng Apr 29 '14 at 07:51
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`Share!` (sorry, couldn't resist) `;)` – gvee Apr 29 '14 at 07:52
thanks for answer but as I said I cant use this my own site , I need just a chars like this: $ ... – CompEng Apr 29 '14 at 08:04
There are not "hundreds" of Unicode characters -- that is just the list of Unicode blocks. Per [this answer](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5924105/how-many-characters-can-be-mapped-with-unicode), there are 109,384 code points "actually assigned in Unicode 6.0". – Jongware Apr 30 '14 at 20:01
just like magic! haha :D – jehzlau Oct 19 '18 at 06:45

Fabrizio Calderan · Answer 2 · 2014-04-29T08:06:14.477

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Since that share symbol doesn't exist on unicode range u0000-uFFFF, you may use instead an iconic font and import that symbol. E.g., if you look at http://fontello.com/ and you search for "share" you will find a similar symbol under Entypo font

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(with Entypo the unicode sequence is \uE800). These fonts are also in SVG format and the size/color/tickness of the symbols can be managed by CSS properties

edited Apr 29 '14 at 08:06

answered Apr 29 '14 at 07:52

Fabrizio Calderan

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thanks for answer, actually I need it with unicode chars if eists :( because I copy it to tittle of my android app – CompEng Apr 29 '14 at 07:55
Not an answer to the question asked. – Jukka K. Korpela Apr 29 '14 at 07:57
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@ErsinGülbahar don't worry, I don't care of downvotes. I just hope it can be useful to you or to other people reading at this question. – Fabrizio Calderan Apr 29 '14 at 08:00

score 6 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 29 '14 at 07:59

As far as I know it doesn't exists, and even if so, there is a very hight chance (like 99%) that the browser will not display it correctly. Try to use the brail coding, in particular this one is very similar to your needs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E2%A0%AA

Is there a Unicode character for the share icon?

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