| Emoji | ✈️ |
| Name | airplane |
| Unicode Codepoint | U+2708 |
| Category | Travel & Places |
| Subcategory | Transport Air |
| Emoji Version | 0.6 |
| Tags | aeroplane, fly, flying, jet, plane, travel |
| Decimal Value | 9992 |
| Hex Value | 0x2708 |
| HTML Code (Dec / Hex) | ✈ / ✈ |
The airplane emoji represents a place, building, mode of transportation, or geographic feature, commonly used in travel planning conversations, location-tagged social posts, or figuratively to signal a trip, vacation, or "getting away" theme.
Category context: The Travel & Places category includes buildings, geographic features, transportation, and sky/weather symbols — frequently used both literally (trip planning, location-sharing) and as visual shorthand for travel-related content and social posts.
Cataloged under Transport Air within the Travel & Places category, airplane is the 160th of 219 emoji How To Type Any Symbol lists in this category, and was introduced in Emoji version 0.6 of the Unicode Emoji Standard. Technically, it is represented by a single Unicode code point rather than a combined sequence, making it one of the simpler emoji to encode and display reliably across platforms. Its Unicode code point sequence is U+2708.
💡 Good to know: Building and landmark emoji are generic representations rather than depictions of specific real buildings — for referencing an actual famous landmark, pair the emoji with its name in text.