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🛟Ring Buoy Emoji
🛟 ring buoy is encoded at U+1F6DF and shipped with Emoji 14.0 (2021). Unicode files it under Travel & Places → Water Transportation, alongside 8 related emojis.
What 🛟 ring buoy means
Boats, mostly aspirational. ⛵️ and 🛥️ appear in holiday photos and marina posts; 🚢 and 🛳️ mark a cruise or a shipping joke; ⚓️ carries a nautical-tattoo aesthetic and, in older internet writing, an anchor link. The set is small and largely original — 🛟 ring buoy is the outlier, added in Emoji 14.0.
Unicode tags this one buoy, float and life and files it under Travel & Places → Water Transportation.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F6DF | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🛟 | |
| HTML decimal | 🛟 | |
| CSS | \1F6DF | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F6DF} | |
| Python | \U0001F6DF | |
| Java / C# | \uD83D\uDEDF | |
| Rust | \u{1f6df} | |
| Swift | \u{1F6DF} | |
| PHP | \u{1F6DF} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%9B%9F | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 9B 9F | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83D DEDF | |
| Base64 | 8J+bnw== | |
| Decimal | 128735 | |
| Introduced | Emoji 14.0 (2021) | |
Keywords
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How to type 🛟
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “ring buoy”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “buoy”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f6dfand 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 🛟 ring buoy emoji mean?+
🛟 is the ring buoy emoji, tagged buoy, float and life. Boats, mostly aspirational. ⛵️ and 🛥️ appear in holiday photos and marina posts; 🚢 and 🛳️ mark a cruise or a shipping joke; ⚓️ carries a nautical-tattoo aesthetic and, in older internet writing, an anchor link. The set is small and largely original — 🛟 ring buoy is the outlier, added in Emoji 14.0.
What is the Unicode code for 🛟?+
ring buoy is U+1F6DF. In HTML that is 🛟, in CSS \1F6DF, and in JavaScript \u{1F6DF}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🛟 emoji added?+
ring buoy got its emoji presentation in Emoji 14.0 (2021). 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 Water Transportation in Travel & Places.
Added in Emoji 14.0 (2021)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🛟 ring buoy.