Tornado
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- Shortcode
:tornado:- Unicode
U+1F32A- HTML
🌪- CSS
\1F32A- JavaScript
"\u{1F32A}"- URL
%F0%9F%8C%AA%EF%B8%8F
What ๐ช๏ธ means
A spinning funnel of wind, a twister. Beyond real weather, it means chaos: a whirlwind of a week, a messy room, or a person who leaves destruction behind them.
"Toddler just went ๐ช๏ธ through the living room" sums up the playful use. It also marks real tornado warnings, where the tone is serious, so read the context.
๐ is a spiral used for dizziness and hurricanes; ๐ช๏ธ is the funnel cloud itself.
Facts
Tornado ๐ช๏ธ is an emoji in the travel and places category, under sky weather. 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 :tornado:. People also look for it with words like โcloudโ, โweatherโ, or โwhirlwindโ.
Timeline
- 2014Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 7.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2017
2020
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2016
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.