astronaut
People
What it means when sent
An astronaut. Alongside the rocket it is literally space; on its own it can read as hyperbole for pulling off something huge.
- Code point
- U+1F9D1 U+200D U+1F680
- Code points
- 3
3 code points joined together. That is why some devices need several backspaces to delete it, and why a character counter may score it as 3.
This one is joined with ZWJ (U+200D). On a device that does not know the sequence it does not merge โ you see the person and the object side by side instead.
Role emojis are mostly ZWJ sequences, so on a device without them you see a person and a tool sitting side by side instead.
Using emojis
- Tap the character to copy it and paste it anywhere โ it is text, not an image, so its size follows the font around it.
- Sender and receiver on different devices see different drawings. Apple, Google and Samsung each draw their own, and for some emojis that changes the meaning (๐, ๐ ).
- At work, an emoji standing in for a sentence invites misreading. In some countries a bare ๐ reads as a brush-off.
- Putting emojis in a page title does not help search ranking โ they are usually stripped from the result.
- Skin-tone variants are not listed here. Only the base form is, because the meaning does not change with them.
Common questions
Q. What does ๐งโ๐ mean?
An astronaut. Alongside the rocket it is literally space; on its own it can read as hyperbole for pulling off something huge.
Q. What is its official name?
Unicode calls it astronaut, code point U+1F9D1 U+200D U+1F680. It sits under People.
Q. Does it survive copy and paste?
This one is joined with ZWJ, so a device that does not know the sequence shows it split into pieces.