helicopter
Places
What it means when sent
A helicopter. It attaches to rescue, news coverage and traffic reports, and it points at those situations more often than at flying itself.
- Code point
- U+1F681
- Code points
- 1
A single code point. One backspace deletes it.
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
Q. What does ๐ mean?
A helicopter. It attaches to rescue, news coverage and traffic reports, and it points at those situations more often than at flying itself.
Q. What is its official name?
Unicode calls it helicopter, code point U+1F681. It sits under Places.
Q. Does it survive copy and paste?
On most devices, yes โ though every vendor draws it slightly differently.