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🌈Rainbow Emoji
Tagged gay, genderqueer and glbt, 🌈 rainbow sits in Unicode's Weather group inside Travel & Places. It was introduced in Unicode 6.0 (2010) at U+1F308.
What 🌈 rainbow means
Weather doubles as mood throughout. 🔥 long ago stopped meaning fire and now means excellent; 🌊 and ⚡ intensify rather than describe; 🌈 reads as LGBTQ+ pride at least as often as weather. Unicode encodes all eight lunar phases as separate characters, plus four moons with faces, and 🌚 is used mainly for deadpan mischief.
Unicode tags this one gay, genderqueer and glbt and files it under Travel & Places → Weather.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F308 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🌈 | |
| HTML decimal | 🌈 | |
| CSS | \1F308 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F308} | |
| Python | \U0001F308 | |
| Java / C# | \uD83C\uDF08 | |
| Rust | \u{1f308} | |
| Swift | \u{1F308} | |
| PHP | \u{1F308} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%8C%88 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 8C 88 | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83C DF08 | |
| Base64 | 8J+MiA== | |
| Decimal | 127752 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 6.0 (2010) | |
Keywords
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How to type 🌈
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “rainbow”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “gay”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f308and 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 🌈 rainbow emoji mean?+
🌈 is the rainbow emoji, tagged gay, genderqueer and glbt. Weather doubles as mood throughout. 🔥 long ago stopped meaning fire and now means excellent; 🌊 and ⚡ intensify rather than describe; 🌈 reads as LGBTQ+ pride at least as often as weather. Unicode encodes all eight lunar phases as separate characters, plus four moons with faces, and 🌚 is used mainly for deadpan mischief.
What is the Unicode code for 🌈?+
rainbow is U+1F308. In HTML that is 🌈, in CSS \1F308, and in JavaScript \u{1F308}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🌈 emoji added?+
rainbow 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 Weather in Travel & Places.
Added in Unicode 6.0 (2010)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🌈 rainbow.