The search symbol that needs only seven characters

Back in the day, reporters would record their phone interviews by attaching a suction cup to the back of the earpiece part of the handset. It was attached by wire to a machine that did the recording. You can still buy them. There was a time when their use was widespread enough to warrant their own unicode. This consisted of circle with a stem coming out of the bottom left. Does that remind you of anything? How about a magnifying glass? The near-universal symbol for search is a magnifying glass. Granted, that symbol usually has the stem coming out the bottom right, but still — the resemblance is uncanny. Unicode for telephone recorder: ⌕ Font Awesome SVG for magnifying glass: That SVG from Font Awesome looks pretty good, but it uses hundreds of characters as opposed to seven for the unicode. And do you really want a third-party dependency just for a magnifying glass? Unicode code &#8981; Font Awesome code <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 640 640" width="21"…