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♨️Hot Springs Emoji
Tagged hot, hotsprings and springs, ♨️ hot springs sits in Unicode's Other Places group inside Travel & Places. It was introduced in Unicode 6.0 (2010) at U+2668 U+FE0F.
What ♨️ hot springs means
A catch-all of scenes and attractions. The city and sky pairs do most of the work: 🌃, 🌆 and 🌇 caption skylines and evenings, 🌅 opens a morning post. 🎢 stands for an emotional stretch rather than a theme park, and 🎪 for chaos. ♨️ is the standard Japanese map symbol for a hot spring, which is why it looks like a diagram.
Unicode tags this one hot, hotsprings and springs and files it under Travel & Places → Other Places.
Copy variants
hot springs 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+2668hot springs
- ·U+FE0FVariation selector (emoji style)
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+2668 U+FE0F | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | ♨️ | |
| HTML decimal | ♨️ | |
| CSS | \2668\FE0F | |
| JavaScript | \u{2668}\u{FE0F} | |
| Python | \U00002668\U0000FE0F | |
| Java / C# | \u2668\uFE0F | |
| Rust | \u{2668}\u{fe0f} | |
| Swift | \u{2668}\u{FE0F} | |
| PHP | \u{2668}\u{FE0F} | |
| URL encoded | %E2%99%A8%EF%B8%8F | |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 99 A8 EF B8 8F | |
| UTF-16 bytes | 2668 FE0F | |
| Base64 | 4pmo77iP | |
| Decimal | 9832 65039 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 6.0 (2010) | |
Keywords
Appears in these collections
How to type ♨️
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “hot springs”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “hot”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type2668and 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 ♨️ hot springs emoji mean?+
♨️ is the hot springs emoji, tagged hot, hotsprings and springs. A catch-all of scenes and attractions. The city and sky pairs do most of the work: 🌃, 🌆 and 🌇 caption skylines and evenings, 🌅 opens a morning post. 🎢 stands for an emotional stretch rather than a theme park, and 🎪 for chaos. ♨️ is the standard Japanese map symbol for a hot spring, which is why it looks like a diagram.
What is the Unicode code for ♨️?+
hot springs is U+2668 U+FE0F. In HTML that is ♨️, in CSS \2668\FE0F, and in JavaScript \u{2668}\u{FE0F}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the ♨️ emoji added?+
hot springs 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 Other Places in Travel & Places.
Added in Unicode 6.0 (2010)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as ♨️ hot springs.