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Straight ruler

This emoji is often used to explain the literal: measuring. This can be in a school setting, as most students are required to own a ruler, or in a work setting. Many professions, such as engineers, general contractors and artists use rules to perfect their workmanship.

Keywords: ruler, straight edge, straight ruler
Codepoints: 1F4CF
Introduced: October, 2010 in Unicode version 6.0.0 (Emoji version 0.6)
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