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🏀Basketball Emoji
🏀 basketball is encoded at U+1F3C0 and shipped with Unicode 6.0 (2010). Unicode files it under Activities → Sports, alongside 26 related emojis.
What 🏀 basketball 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 ball, hoop and sport 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+1F3C0 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🏀 | |
| HTML decimal | 🏀 | |
| CSS | \1F3C0 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F3C0} | |
| Python | \U0001F3C0 | |
| Java / C# | \uD83C\uDFC0 | |
| Rust | \u{1f3c0} | |
| Swift | \u{1F3C0} | |
| PHP | \u{1F3C0} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%8F%80 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 8F 80 | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83C DFC0 | |
| Base64 | 8J+PgA== | |
| Decimal | 127936 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 6.0 (2010) | |
Keywords
Appears in these collections
How to type 🏀
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “basketball”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “ball”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f3c0and 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 🏀 basketball emoji mean?+
🏀 is the basketball emoji, tagged ball, hoop and sport. 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 🏀?+
basketball is U+1F3C0. In HTML that is 🏀, in CSS \1F3C0, and in JavaScript \u{1F3C0}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🏀 emoji added?+
basketball 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 🏀 basketball.