Compass

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Shortcode
:compass:
Unicode
U+1F9ED
HTML
🧭
CSS
\1F9ED
JavaScript
"\u{1F9ED}"
URL
%F0%9F%A7%AD

directionmagneticnavigationorienteering

What ๐Ÿงญ means

A magnetic compass with a needle. It means direction, navigation and finding one's way, in travel or in life.

Hiking, orienteering and adventure posts use it with ๐Ÿ”๏ธ or ๐Ÿ—บ๏ธ. It also stands for a 'moral compass' or for a person who keeps someone on track: 'you're my ๐Ÿงญ'.

Work chat sometimes uses it for strategy, vision or 'north star' goals.

Facts

Compass ๐Ÿงญ is an emoji in the travel and places category, under place map. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 11.0, released in 2018. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :compass:. People also look for it with words like โ€œdirectionโ€, โ€œmagneticโ€, โ€œnavigationโ€, or โ€œorienteeringโ€.

Timeline

  1. 2018Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 11.0)

Design history

Google (Noto)

  1. compass, Google (Noto) design from 20182018
  2. compass, Google (Noto) design from 20212021

Twemoji (X, Discord)

  1. compass, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20182018

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

travel & places ยท Emoji 11.0