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✈️Airplane Emoji
✈️ airplane is encoded at U+2708 U+FE0F and shipped with Unicode 6.0 (2010). Unicode files it under Travel & Places → Air Transportation, alongside 12 related emojis.
What ✈️ airplane means
Flight and everything above it. ✈️ marks travel plans, and 🛫 and 🛬 exist specifically to say departing and landing. 🚀 has drifted the furthest of any emoji here: in software it means a release shipped, and in trading talk it means a price is climbing. 🛸 flying saucer was added in Emoji 5.0.
Unicode tags this one aeroplane, fly and flying and files it under Travel & Places → Air Transportation.
Copy variants
airplane carries a variation selector (U+FE0F) that forces colour rendering. Drop it and the same character renders as monochrome text.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
How ✈️ is built
This emoji is more than one codepoint. Each part below is a character in its own right.
- ✈U+2708airplane
- ·U+FE0FVariation selector (emoji style)
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+2708 U+FE0F | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | ✈️ | |
| HTML decimal | ✈️ | |
| CSS | \2708\FE0F | |
| JavaScript | \u{2708}\u{FE0F} | |
| Python | \U00002708\U0000FE0F | |
| Java / C# | \u2708\uFE0F | |
| Rust | \u{2708}\u{fe0f} | |
| Swift | \u{2708}\u{FE0F} | |
| PHP | \u{2708}\u{FE0F} | |
| URL encoded | %E2%9C%88%EF%B8%8F | |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 9C 88 EF B8 8F | |
| UTF-16 bytes | 2708 FE0F | |
| Base64 | 4pyI77iP | |
| Decimal | 9992 65039 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 6.0 (2010) | |
Keywords
Appears in these collections
How to type ✈️
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “airplane”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “aeroplane”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type2708and 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 ✈️ airplane emoji mean?+
✈️ is the airplane emoji, tagged aeroplane, fly and flying. Flight and everything above it. ✈️ marks travel plans, and 🛫 and 🛬 exist specifically to say departing and landing. 🚀 has drifted the furthest of any emoji here: in software it means a release shipped, and in trading talk it means a price is climbing. 🛸 flying saucer was added in Emoji 5.0.
What is the Unicode code for ✈️?+
airplane is U+2708 U+FE0F. In HTML that is ✈️, in CSS \2708\FE0F, and in JavaScript \u{2708}\u{FE0F}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the ✈️ emoji added?+
airplane got its emoji presentation in Unicode 6.0 (2010). 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 Air Transportation in Travel & Places.
Added in Unicode 6.0 (2010)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as ✈️ airplane.