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🧭Compass Emoji
🧭 compass is encoded at U+1F9ED and shipped with Emoji 11.0 (2018). Unicode files it under Travel & Places → Globes & Maps, alongside 6 related emojis.
What 🧭 compass means
Globes and orientation. Unicode encodes three separate Earth characters — 🌍 Europe-Africa, 🌎 Americas, 🌏 Asia-Australia — so people can pick the face that shows their own region, and the choice is often deliberate. 🌐 has drifted almost entirely to the internet: websites, language switchers, anything global. 🗺️ and 🧭 do travel-planning and wanderlust duty.
Unicode tags this one direction, magnetic and navigation and files it under Travel & Places → Globes & Maps.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F9ED | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🧭 | |
| HTML decimal | 🧭 | |
| CSS | \1F9ED | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F9ED} | |
| Python | \U0001F9ED | |
| Java / C# | \uD83E\uDDED | |
| Rust | \u{1f9ed} | |
| Swift | \u{1F9ED} | |
| PHP | \u{1F9ED} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%A7%AD | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A7 AD | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83E DDED | |
| Base64 | 8J+nrQ== | |
| Decimal | 129517 | |
| Introduced | Emoji 11.0 (2018) | |
Keywords
- direction
- magnetic
- navigation
- orienteering
Appears in these collections
How to type 🧭
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “compass”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “direction”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f9edand 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 🧭 compass emoji mean?+
🧭 is the compass emoji, tagged direction, magnetic and navigation. Globes and orientation. Unicode encodes three separate Earth characters — 🌍 Europe-Africa, 🌎 Americas, 🌏 Asia-Australia — so people can pick the face that shows their own region, and the choice is often deliberate. 🌐 has drifted almost entirely to the internet: websites, language switchers, anything global. 🗺️ and 🧭 do travel-planning and wanderlust duty.
What is the Unicode code for 🧭?+
compass is U+1F9ED. In HTML that is 🧭, in CSS \1F9ED, and in JavaScript \u{1F9ED}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🧭 emoji added?+
compass got its emoji presentation in Emoji 11.0 (2018). 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 Globes & Maps in Travel & Places.
Added in Emoji 11.0 (2018)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🧭 compass.