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⚓️Anchor Emoji
⚓️ anchor — U+2693 U+FE0F, added in Unicode 6.0 (2010). Unicode groups it with the other 9 water transportation emojis under Travel & Places.
What ⚓️ anchor means
Boats, mostly aspirational. ⛵️ and 🛥️ appear in holiday photos and marina posts; 🚢 and 🛳️ mark a cruise or a shipping joke; ⚓️ carries a nautical-tattoo aesthetic and, in older internet writing, an anchor link. The set is small and largely original — 🛟 ring buoy is the outlier, added in Emoji 14.0.
Unicode tags this one ship, tool and files it under Travel & Places → Water Transportation.
Copy variants
anchor 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+2693anchor
- ·U+FE0FVariation selector (emoji style)
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+2693 U+FE0F | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | ⚓️ | |
| HTML decimal | ⚓️ | |
| CSS | \2693\FE0F | |
| JavaScript | \u{2693}\u{FE0F} | |
| Python | \U00002693\U0000FE0F | |
| Java / C# | \u2693\uFE0F | |
| Rust | \u{2693}\u{fe0f} | |
| Swift | \u{2693}\u{FE0F} | |
| PHP | \u{2693}\u{FE0F} | |
| URL encoded | %E2%9A%93%EF%B8%8F | |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 9A 93 EF B8 8F | |
| UTF-16 bytes | 2693 FE0F | |
| Base64 | 4pqT77iP | |
| Decimal | 9875 65039 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 6.0 (2010) | |
Keywords
- ship
- tool
Appears in these collections
How to type ⚓️
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “anchor”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “ship”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type2693and 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 ⚓️ anchor emoji mean?+
⚓️ is the anchor emoji, tagged ship, tool. Boats, mostly aspirational. ⛵️ and 🛥️ appear in holiday photos and marina posts; 🚢 and 🛳️ mark a cruise or a shipping joke; ⚓️ carries a nautical-tattoo aesthetic and, in older internet writing, an anchor link. The set is small and largely original — 🛟 ring buoy is the outlier, added in Emoji 14.0.
What is the Unicode code for ⚓️?+
anchor is U+2693 U+FE0F. In HTML that is ⚓️, in CSS \2693\FE0F, and in JavaScript \u{2693}\u{FE0F}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the ⚓️ emoji added?+
anchor 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 Water Transportation in Travel & Places.
Added in Unicode 6.0 (2010)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as ⚓️ anchor.