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🏬Department Store Emoji
Unicode added 🏬 department store in Unicode 6.0 (2010), filed under Travel & Places → Buildings. Its codepoint is U+1F3EC, and it is tagged building, department and store.
What 🏬 department store means
Buildings mark a place in a story: 🏠 for home, 🏥 for a hospital visit, 🏫 for school runs, 🏦 for money talk. The set is visibly inherited from Japanese carrier emoji — Unicode carries both 🏣 Japanese post office and 🏤 post office as separate characters, and 🏩 love hotel exists because the source sets had one.
Unicode tags this one building, department and store and files it under Travel & Places → Buildings.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F3EC | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🏬 | |
| HTML decimal | 🏬 | |
| CSS | \1F3EC | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F3EC} | |
| Python | \U0001F3EC | |
| Java / C# | \uD83C\uDFEC | |
| Rust | \u{1f3ec} | |
| Swift | \u{1F3EC} | |
| PHP | \u{1F3EC} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%8F%AC | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 8F AC | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83C DFEC | |
| Base64 | 8J+PrA== | |
| Decimal | 127980 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 6.0 (2010) | |
Keywords
- building
- department
- store
Appears in these collections
How to type 🏬
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “department store”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “building”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f3ecand 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 🏬 department store emoji mean?+
🏬 is the department store emoji, tagged building, department and store. Buildings mark a place in a story: 🏠 for home, 🏥 for a hospital visit, 🏫 for school runs, 🏦 for money talk. The set is visibly inherited from Japanese carrier emoji — Unicode carries both 🏣 Japanese post office and 🏤 post office as separate characters, and 🏩 love hotel exists because the source sets had one.
What is the Unicode code for 🏬?+
department store is U+1F3EC. In HTML that is 🏬, in CSS \1F3EC, and in JavaScript \u{1F3EC}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🏬 emoji added?+
department store 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 Buildings in Travel & Places.
Added in Unicode 6.0 (2010)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🏬 department store.