desert island
Places
What it means when sent
The official name is โdesert islandโ, but despite the word it is a deserted island with a palm, not a desert โ the desert is ๐๏ธ. It means getting away, being somewhere with nobody in it. It needs a trailing U+FE0F for colour.
- Code point
- U+1F3DD U+FE0F
- Code points
- 2
2 code points joined together. That is why some devices need several backspaces to delete it, and why a character counter may score it as 2.
It needs a trailing U+FE0F to render in colour. Without it the glyph falls back to black and white โ that is what gets lost when the emoji is copied and pasted.
Place emoji show the country that drew them. โฉ๏ธ is a Shinto gate and stands for Japan itself, and ๐ผ is Tokyo Tower, not the Eiffel Tower.
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
QWhat does ๐๏ธ mean?
The official name is โdesert islandโ, but despite the word it is a deserted island with a palm, not a desert โ the desert is ๐๏ธ. It means getting away, being somewhere with nobody in it. It needs a trailing U+FE0F for colour.
QWhat is its official name?
Unicode calls it desert island, code point U+1F3DD U+FE0F. It sits under Places.
QDoes it survive copy and paste?
Only if the trailing U+FE0F comes along. Without it the glyph falls back to black and white.