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⛵️Sailboat Emoji
Unicode added ⛵️ sailboat in Unicode 6.0 (2010), filed under Travel & Places → Water Transportation. Its codepoint is U+26F5 U+FE0F, and it is tagged boat, resort and sailing.
What ⛵️ sailboat 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 boat, resort and sailing and files it under Travel & Places → Water Transportation.
Copy variants
sailboat 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+26F5sailboat
- ·U+FE0FVariation selector (emoji style)
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+26F5 U+FE0F | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | ⛵️ | |
| HTML decimal | ⛵️ | |
| CSS | \26F5\FE0F | |
| JavaScript | \u{26F5}\u{FE0F} | |
| Python | \U000026F5\U0000FE0F | |
| Java / C# | \u26F5\uFE0F | |
| Rust | \u{26f5}\u{fe0f} | |
| Swift | \u{26F5}\u{FE0F} | |
| PHP | \u{26F5}\u{FE0F} | |
| URL encoded | %E2%9B%B5%EF%B8%8F | |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 9B B5 EF B8 8F | |
| UTF-16 bytes | 26F5 FE0F | |
| Base64 | 4pu177iP | |
| Decimal | 9973 65039 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 6.0 (2010) | |
Keywords
Appears in these collections
How to type ⛵️
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “sailboat”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “boat”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type26f5and 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 ⛵️ sailboat emoji mean?+
⛵️ is the sailboat emoji, tagged boat, resort and sailing. 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 ⛵️?+
sailboat is U+26F5 U+FE0F. In HTML that is ⛵️, in CSS \26F5\FE0F, and in JavaScript \u{26F5}\u{FE0F}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the ⛵️ emoji added?+
sailboat 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 Water Transportation in Travel & Places.
Added in Unicode 6.0 (2010)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as ⛵️ sailboat.