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🏠️House Emoji
🏠️ is the house emoji, U+1F3E0 U+FE0F, one of 27 in the Buildings set. It arrived with Unicode 6.0 (2010) and is commonly used for building, country and heart.
What 🏠️ house 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, country and heart and files it under Travel & Places → Buildings.
Copy variants
house 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+1F3E0house
- ·U+FE0FVariation selector (emoji style)
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F3E0 U+FE0F | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🏠️ | |
| HTML decimal | 🏠️ | |
| CSS | \1F3E0\FE0F | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F3E0}\u{FE0F} | |
| Python | \U0001F3E0\U0000FE0F | |
| Java / C# | \uD83C\uDFE0\uFE0F | |
| Rust | \u{1f3e0}\u{fe0f} | |
| Swift | \u{1F3E0}\u{FE0F} | |
| PHP | \u{1F3E0}\u{FE0F} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%8F%A0%EF%B8%8F | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 8F A0 EF B8 8F | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83C DFE0 FE0F | |
| Base64 | 8J+PoO+4jw== | |
| Decimal | 127968 65039 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 6.0 (2010) | |
Keywords
Appears in these collections
How to type 🏠️
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “house”. - 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 type1f3e0and 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 🏠️ house emoji mean?+
🏠️ is the house emoji, tagged building, country and heart. 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 🏠️?+
house is U+1F3E0 U+FE0F. In HTML that is 🏠️, in CSS \1F3E0\FE0F, and in JavaScript \u{1F3E0}\u{FE0F}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🏠️ emoji added?+
house 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 🏠️ house.