What ๐ means
A line chart going up. It means growth, gains, and things getting better.
Common for rising stocks, sales, followers and progress reports. The โstonks ๐โ meme uses it for gains with a goofy tone. It also works sarcastically for things that should not rise, like prices or stress levels.
Facts
Chart increasing ๐ is an emoji in the objects category, under office. 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 :chart_with_upwards_trend: or :chart_increasing:. People also look for it with words like โchartโ, โdataโ, โgraphโ, or โgrowthโ.
Timeline
- 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)
Design history
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.
objects ยท Unicode 6.0