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🚁Helicopter Emoji
Unicode added 🚁 helicopter in Emoji 1.0 (2015), filed under Travel & Places → Air Transportation. Its codepoint is U+1F681, and it is tagged copter, roflcopter and travel.
What 🚁 helicopter means
Flight and everything above it. ✈️ marks travel plans, and 🛫 and 🛬 exist specifically to say departing and landing. 🚀 has drifted the furthest of any emoji here: in software it means a release shipped, and in trading talk it means a price is climbing. 🛸 flying saucer was added in Emoji 5.0.
Unicode tags this one copter, roflcopter and travel and files it under Travel & Places → Air Transportation.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F681 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🚁 | |
| HTML decimal | 🚁 | |
| CSS | \1F681 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F681} | |
| Python | \U0001F681 | |
| Java / C# | \uD83D\uDE81 | |
| Rust | \u{1f681} | |
| Swift | \u{1F681} | |
| PHP | \u{1F681} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%9A%81 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 9A 81 | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83D DE81 | |
| Base64 | 8J+agQ== | |
| Decimal | 128641 | |
| Introduced | Emoji 1.0 (2015) | |
Keywords
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How to type 🚁
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “helicopter”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “copter”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f681and 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 🚁 helicopter emoji mean?+
🚁 is the helicopter emoji, tagged copter, roflcopter and travel. Flight and everything above it. ✈️ marks travel plans, and 🛫 and 🛬 exist specifically to say departing and landing. 🚀 has drifted the furthest of any emoji here: in software it means a release shipped, and in trading talk it means a price is climbing. 🛸 flying saucer was added in Emoji 5.0.
What is the Unicode code for 🚁?+
helicopter is U+1F681. In HTML that is 🚁, in CSS \1F681, and in JavaScript \u{1F681}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🚁 emoji added?+
helicopter got its emoji presentation in Emoji 1.0 (2015). 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 Air Transportation in Travel & Places.
Added in Emoji 1.0 (2015)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🚁 helicopter.