moai statue
Places
What it means when sent
A moai statue from Rapa Nui (Easter Island), which belongs to Chile. In practice it is sent far more for a stone-faced, deadpan reaction than for the island โ much the same slot as ๐.
Official name vs. real use
The name Unicode gave it and the way people use it are not the same. If you searched your way here, the second one is usually what you were after.
- Official name
- moai
- What people call it
- moai statue
- Code point
- U+1F5FF
- 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 ๐ฟ mean?
A moai statue from Rapa Nui (Easter Island), which belongs to Chile. In practice it is sent far more for a stone-faced, deadpan reaction than for the island โ much the same slot as ๐.
Q. What is its official name?
Unicode calls it moai, code point U+1F5FF. It sits under Places.
Q. Does it survive copy and paste?
On most devices, yes โ though every vendor draws it slightly differently.