sailboat
Places
What it means when sent
The official name is “sailboat”, but the drawing is a small one-sail dinghy. Sending it for a big yacht therefore shrinks what you meant; the engine-powered boat is 🛥️.
- Code point
- U+26F5
- Code points
- 1
A single code point. One backspace deletes it.
Place emoji show the country that drew them. ⛩️ is a Shinto gate and stands for Japan itself, and 🗼 is Tokyo Tower, not the Eiffel Tower.
Using emojis
- Tap the character to copy it and paste it anywhere — 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 (🙃, 😅).
- At work, an emoji standing in for a sentence invites misreading. In some countries a bare 👍 reads as a brush-off.
- Putting emojis in a page title does not help search ranking — 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 ⛵ mean?
The official name is “sailboat”, but the drawing is a small one-sail dinghy. Sending it for a big yacht therefore shrinks what you meant; the engine-powered boat is 🛥️.
QWhat is its official name?
Unicode calls it sailboat, code point U+26F5. It sits under Places.
QDoes it survive copy and paste?
On most devices, yes — though every vendor draws it slightly differently.