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🏈American Football Emoji
🏈 is the american football emoji, U+1F3C8, one of 27 in the Sports set. It arrived with Unicode 6.0 (2010) and is commonly used for american, ball and bowl.
What 🏈 american football means
Balls and gear, used to say what you play, what you are watching, or which team you support. ⚽ and 🏀 do the most work worldwide; 🏈 is specifically American football, with 🏉 covering rugby. ⛳ carries business-golf connotations, and 🎣 means fishing for compliments as often as fishing. 🥎, 🥍 and 🥏 all arrived in Emoji 11.0.
Unicode tags this one american, ball and bowl and files it under Activities → Sports.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F3C8 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🏈 | |
| HTML decimal | 🏈 | |
| CSS | \1F3C8 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F3C8} | |
| Python | \U0001F3C8 | |
| Java / C# | \uD83C\uDFC8 | |
| Rust | \u{1f3c8} | |
| Swift | \u{1F3C8} | |
| PHP | \u{1F3C8} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%8F%88 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 8F 88 | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83C DFC8 | |
| Base64 | 8J+PiA== | |
| Decimal | 127944 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 6.0 (2010) | |
Keywords
Appears in these collections
How to type 🏈
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “american football”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “american”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f3c8and 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 🏈 american football emoji mean?+
🏈 is the american football emoji, tagged american, ball and bowl. Balls and gear, used to say what you play, what you are watching, or which team you support. ⚽ and 🏀 do the most work worldwide; 🏈 is specifically American football, with 🏉 covering rugby. ⛳ carries business-golf connotations, and 🎣 means fishing for compliments as often as fishing. 🥎, 🥍 and 🥏 all arrived in Emoji 11.0.
What is the Unicode code for 🏈?+
american football is U+1F3C8. In HTML that is 🏈, in CSS \1F3C8, and in JavaScript \u{1F3C8}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🏈 emoji added?+
american football 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 Sports in Activities.
Added in Unicode 6.0 (2010)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🏈 american football.