| Emoji | 💈 |
| Name | barber pole |
| Unicode Codepoint | U+1F488 |
| Category | Travel & Places |
| Subcategory | Place Other |
| Emoji Version | 0.6 |
| Tags | barber, cut, fresh, haircut, pole, shave |
| Decimal Value | 128136 |
| Hex Value | 0x1F488 |
| HTML Code (Dec / Hex) | 💈 / 💈 |
The barber pole 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 Place Other within the Travel & Places category, barber pole is the 59th 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+1F488.
💡 Good to know: Rendering of geographic and building emoji varies in architectural style between vendors — useful to know if visual consistency matters for your content.
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The barber pole emoji is Unicode U+1F488.
The barber pole 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.