American football emoji 🏈
Emoji 0.6 (2010) · U+1F3C8
What 🏈 means
In Unicode's CLDR data, American football 🏈 is tagged with these keywords: american, ball, bowl, football, sport, super.
Phone keyboards use the same keywords, so typing american or ball in the emoji search brings up 🏈.
American football 🏈 is one of 27 emoji in the sports subgroup of activities (85 emoji), next to 🏉 🎾 🥏 🎳.
Will 🏈 show on my friend's phone?
🏈 is one of the original emoji: it comes from the Japanese phone sets and is listed in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Every phone, computer and app shows it.
How to type 🏈
Any emoji picker finds 🏈 when you search for american football.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type american football.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type american football in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type american football.
Codes for developers
American football 🏈 is a single code point, U+1F3C8. In UTF-8 it takes 4 bytes, and in JavaScript its string length is 2.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1F3C8 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🏈 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🏈 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F3C8"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F3C8} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%8F%88 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 8F 88 |
Names in other languages
The CLDR name of 🏈 in the 12 languages of this site. Each links to that language's page.
| Language | Name |
|---|---|
| English | american football |
| Português | bola de futebol americano |
| Español | balón de fútbol americano |
| Italiano | football americano |
| Français | football américain |
| Deutsch | Football |
| Türkçe | amerikan futbolu |
| Bahasa Indonesia | American football |
| Polski | futbol amerykański |
| Русский | американский футбол |
| 日本語 | アメフト |
| 한국어 | 미식축구공 |
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All activities emoji →Questions people ask
What does the american football emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🏈 "american football" and links it with american, ball, bowl, football. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the sports subgroup of activities.
When was the american football emoji added?
It is one of the very first emoji, part of Emoji 0.6 from 2010, so it works on any phone.
How do I type the american football emoji?
Any emoji picker finds 🏈 when you search for american football.