Desert

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Shortcode
:desert:
Unicode
U+1F3DC
HTML
🏜
CSS
\1F3DC
JavaScript
"\u{1F3DC}"
URL
%F0%9F%8F%9C%EF%B8%8F

desert

What ๐Ÿœ๏ธ means

A dry desert landscape. It means heat, dry land and wide-open spaces.

Road trips through the American Southwest, Middle East travel and heat waves use it with ๐ŸŒต or ๐Ÿฅต. It also describes something empty or quiet, like a dead group chat.

Not to be confused with ๐Ÿ๏ธ, a 'desert island', where 'desert' means deserted, not sandy.

Facts

Desert ๐Ÿœ๏ธ is an emoji in the travel and places category, under place geographic. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 7.0 (2014). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :desert:.

Timeline

  1. 2014Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 7.0)

Design history

Google (Noto)

  1. desert, Google (Noto) design from 20172017
  2. desert, Google (Noto) design from 20212021

Twemoji (X, Discord)

  1. desert, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20162016
  2. desert, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20182018

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

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