Anchor
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- Shortcode
:anchor:- Unicode
U+2693- HTML
⚓- CSS
\2693- JavaScript
"\u{2693}"- URL
%E2%9A%93
What ⚓ means
A ship's anchor. It stands for the sea, sailing and stability: something that holds a person steady.
Sailors, navy members and beach towns use it, often with ⛵ or 🌊. In personal posts it means a person or a faith that keeps someone grounded. It is also a classic tattoo design.
Christians have long used the anchor as a symbol of hope.
Facts
Anchor ⚓ is an emoji in the travel and places category, under transport water. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :anchor:. People also look for it with words like “ship” or “tool”.
Timeline
- 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2015
2017
2021
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2014
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.