Basketball emoji 🏀
Emoji 0.6 (2010) · U+1F3C0
What 🏀 means
The keywords Unicode lists for 🏀 are ball, hoop, sport. They show what people use it for.
Search for ball or hoop on your emoji keyboard and 🏀 is among the results.
You will find 🏀 among the sports (27 emoji), part of activities with 85 emoji in all. Its neighbours include 🏐 🏈 🏉 🎾.
Will 🏀 show on my friend's phone?
One of the first emoji ever: 🏀 is part of Emoji 0.6 from 2010, the set that started on Japanese phones. It shows everywhere.
How to type 🏀
Search for basketball in the emoji picker of your phone or computer to find 🏀.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type basketball.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type basketball in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type basketball.
Codes for developers
Under the hood, 🏀 is one code point (U+1F3C0), 4 bytes in UTF-8 and 2 UTF-16 units, which is what a JavaScript length check counts.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1F3C0 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🏀 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🏀 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F3C0"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F3C0} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%8F%80 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 8F 80 |
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 | basketball |
| Português | bola de basquete |
| Español | balón de baloncesto |
| Italiano | palla da pallacanestro |
| Français | basket |
| Deutsch | Basketball |
| Türkçe | basketbol |
| Bahasa Indonesia | bola basket |
| Polski | koszykówka |
| Русский | баскетбол |
| 日本語 | バスケットボール |
| 한국어 | 농구 |
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What does the basketball emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🏀 "basketball" and links it with ball, hoop, sport. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the sports subgroup of activities.
When was the basketball 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 basketball emoji?
Search for basketball in the emoji picker of your phone or computer to find 🏀.