Airplane

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Shortcode
:airplane:
Unicode
U+2708
HTML
✈
CSS
\2708
JavaScript
"\u{2708}"
URL
%E2%9C%88%EF%B8%8F

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What ✈️ means

An airplane in flight. It means flying, travel and trips abroad.

Travelers send it before a flight, add it to travel captions or announce a trip: '✈️ Paris'. It can also mean 'heading out' or being in airplane mode for a while. Pairs with 🌍, 🧳 and 🛫.

Facts

Airplane ✈️ is an emoji in the travel and places category, under transport air. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). 3 other emoji use it as a building block. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :airplane:. People also look for it with words like “aeroplane”, “fly”, “flying”, or “jet”.

Timeline

  1. 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)
  2. 20162 new emoji built from it (Emoji 4.0)👨‍✈️👩‍✈️
  3. 2019New emoji built from it (Emoji 12.1)🧑‍✈️

Design history

Google (Noto)

  1. airplane, Google (Noto) design from 20152015
  2. airplane, Google (Noto) design from 20172017
  3. airplane, Google (Noto) design from 20212021

Twemoji (X, Discord)

  1. airplane, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20142014

Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.

travel & places · Unicode 6.0