Basketball
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- Shortcode
:basketball:- Unicode
U+1F3C0- HTML
🏀- CSS
\1F3C0- JavaScript
"\u{1F3C0}"- URL
%F0%9F%8F%80
What ๐ means
An orange basketball. It stands for hoops: playing, watching, or following a team through the season.
Game nights, pickup runs and playoff chat use it, often with ๐ฅ for a hot shooter. It also shows up in "shoot your shot" encouragement, meaning go for it, in sport or in dating.
Facts
Basketball ๐ is an emoji in the activities category, under sport. 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 :basketball:. People also look for it with words like โballโ, โhoopโ, or โsportโ.
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.