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🏜️Desert Emoji
Unicode added 🏜️ desert in Unicode 7.0 (2014), filed under Travel & Places → Geographic Locations. Its codepoint is U+1F3DC U+FE0F, and it is tagged desert.
What 🏜️ desert means
Landscapes rather than buildings, used to caption where you went or where you would rather be. 🏝️ and 🏖️ carry holiday posts and out-of-office replies; 🏔️ and ⛰️ do hiking; 🌋 doubles as an image of anger about to surface. Most of the scenic characters here — camping, beach, desert, national park — arrived together in Unicode 7.0.
Unicode tags this one desert and files it under Travel & Places → Geographic Locations.
Copy variants
desert 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+1F3DCdesert
- ·U+FE0FVariation selector (emoji style)
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F3DC U+FE0F | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🏜️ | |
| HTML decimal | 🏜️ | |
| CSS | \1F3DC\FE0F | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F3DC}\u{FE0F} | |
| Python | \U0001F3DC\U0000FE0F | |
| Java / C# | \uD83C\uDFDC\uFE0F | |
| Rust | \u{1f3dc}\u{fe0f} | |
| Swift | \u{1F3DC}\u{FE0F} | |
| PHP | \u{1F3DC}\u{FE0F} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%8F%9C%EF%B8%8F | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 8F 9C EF B8 8F | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83C DFDC FE0F | |
| Base64 | 8J+PnO+4jw== | |
| Decimal | 127964 65039 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 7.0 (2014) | |
Keywords
Appears in these collections
How to type 🏜️
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “desert”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “desert”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f3dcand 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 🏜️ desert emoji mean?+
🏜️ is the desert emoji, tagged desert. Landscapes rather than buildings, used to caption where you went or where you would rather be. 🏝️ and 🏖️ carry holiday posts and out-of-office replies; 🏔️ and ⛰️ do hiking; 🌋 doubles as an image of anger about to surface. Most of the scenic characters here — camping, beach, desert, national park — arrived together in Unicode 7.0.
What is the Unicode code for 🏜️?+
desert is U+1F3DC U+FE0F. In HTML that is 🏜️, in CSS \1F3DC\FE0F, and in JavaScript \u{1F3DC}\u{FE0F}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🏜️ emoji added?+
desert got its emoji presentation in Unicode 7.0 (2014). 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 Geographic Locations in Travel & Places.
Added in Unicode 7.0 (2014)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🏜️ desert.