Eraser Emoji

🪌 Eraser is a standard pink-and-blue rubber eraser, the kind sitting on every school desk. Unicode categorized it under Activities » arts & crafts, next to paint, scissors, and sewing gear. It's the eraser half of ✏️ Pencil, making the set complete for the first time.

The proposal argues that "erase," "undo," and "delete" are among the most common metaphors in digital communication, but emoji had no visual shorthand for them. Expect 🪌 to get pulled into productivity contexts ("erase from memory," "undo that"), education posts (back-to-school season), and ironic content ("can we 🪌 last week"). The literal school-supply use case is secondary to the metaphor.

Proposed in 2025 (L2/25-255). The main pitch: ✏️ Pencil has existed since Emoji 1.0 (2015), but the eraser that pencils usually come with didn't have its own glyph. The proposal highlights the undo/erase metaphor, which has become universal in digital UIs (undo buttons in every text editor, delete gestures in every mobile OS), but had no emoji equivalent. Draft release is Emoji 18.0, September 2026.