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🪀Yo-Yo Emoji
🪀 is the yo-yo emoji, U+1FA80, one of 24 in the Games & Hobbies set. It arrived with Emoji 12.0 (2019) and is commonly used for fluctuate, toy.
What 🪀 yo-yo means
Games, toys and fortune-telling. 🎯 means you got something exactly right, 🎲 means chance, 🔮 covers predictions and manifesting posts, and 🧸 signals softness or nostalgia. The notable rendering story is 🔫: between 2016 and 2018 every major platform replaced its realistic pistol with a toy water gun, and the current CLDR name is water pistol.
Unicode tags this one fluctuate, toy and files it under Activities → Games & Hobbies.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1FA80 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🪀 | |
| HTML decimal | 🪀 | |
| CSS | \1FA80 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1FA80} | |
| Python | \U0001FA80 | |
| Java / C# | \uD83E\uDE80 | |
| Rust | \u{1fa80} | |
| Swift | \u{1FA80} | |
| PHP | \u{1FA80} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%AA%80 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F AA 80 | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83E DE80 | |
| Base64 | 8J+qgA== | |
| Decimal | 129664 | |
| Introduced | Emoji 12.0 (2019) | |
Keywords
- fluctuate
- toy
Appears in these collections
How to type 🪀
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “yo-yo”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “fluctuate”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1fa80and 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 🪀 yo-yo emoji mean?+
🪀 is the yo-yo emoji, tagged fluctuate, toy. Games, toys and fortune-telling. 🎯 means you got something exactly right, 🎲 means chance, 🔮 covers predictions and manifesting posts, and 🧸 signals softness or nostalgia. The notable rendering story is 🔫: between 2016 and 2018 every major platform replaced its realistic pistol with a toy water gun, and the current CLDR name is water pistol.
What is the Unicode code for 🪀?+
yo-yo is U+1FA80. In HTML that is 🪀, in CSS \1FA80, and in JavaScript \u{1FA80}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🪀 emoji added?+
yo-yo got its emoji presentation in Emoji 12.0 (2019). 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 Games & Hobbies in Activities.
Added in Emoji 12.0 (2019)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🪀 yo-yo.