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🥈2nd Place Medal Emoji
Unicode added 🥈 2nd place medal in Emoji 3.0 (2016), filed under Activities → Award Medals. Its codepoint is U+1F948, and it is tagged 2nd, medal and place.
What 🥈 2nd place medal means
Six characters for winning. 🏆 marks any victory, work included; 🥇 ranks items in a list as often as it awards anything; 🥈 and 🥉 get used self-deprecatingly for near-misses. 🎖️ is a military decoration and reads oddly outside that context. The three podium medals were added together in Emoji 3.0, released in 2016.
Unicode tags this one 2nd, medal and place and files it under Activities → Award Medals.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F948 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🥈 | |
| HTML decimal | 🥈 | |
| CSS | \1F948 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F948} | |
| Python | \U0001F948 | |
| Java / C# | \uD83E\uDD48 | |
| Rust | \u{1f948} | |
| Swift | \u{1F948} | |
| PHP | \u{1F948} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%A5%88 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A5 88 | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83E DD48 | |
| Base64 | 8J+liA== | |
| Decimal | 129352 | |
| Introduced | Emoji 3.0 (2016) | |
Keywords
- 2nd
- medal
- place
- second
- silver
Appears in these collections
How to type 🥈
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “2nd place medal”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “2nd”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f948and Enter. - HTML — paste
🥈.
How 🥈 renders
The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.
- 🥈Apple
- 🥈Segoe
- 🥈Noto
- 🥈System
Frequently asked questions
What does the 🥈 2nd place medal emoji mean?+
🥈 is the 2nd place medal emoji, tagged 2nd, medal and place. Six characters for winning. 🏆 marks any victory, work included; 🥇 ranks items in a list as often as it awards anything; 🥈 and 🥉 get used self-deprecatingly for near-misses. 🎖️ is a military decoration and reads oddly outside that context. The three podium medals were added together in Emoji 3.0, released in 2016.
What is the Unicode code for 🥈?+
2nd place medal is U+1F948. In HTML that is 🥈, in CSS \1F948, and in JavaScript \u{1F948}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🥈 emoji added?+
2nd place medal got its emoji presentation in Emoji 3.0 (2016). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.
Related emojis
More emojis from Award Medals in Activities.
Added in Emoji 3.0 (2016)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🥈 2nd place medal.