Kite emoji 🪁
Emoji 12.0 (2019) · U+1FA81
What 🪁 means
Kite 🪁 goes with these words in Unicode's CLDR: fly, soar.
Those words also drive emoji search: try fly or soar on your phone to find 🪁.
On the emoji keyboard, 🪁 sits with the games (24 emoji) inside activities, which has 85 emoji, for example 🔫 🎱 🔮 🪄.
Will 🪁 show on my friend's phone?
🪁 dates from Emoji 12.0 (2019). Unless a phone has gone years without an update, it shows it.
How to type 🪁
To find 🪁 quickly, type kite into the emoji search.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type kite.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type kite in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type kite.
Codes for developers
A character counter sees 🪁 as one code point, U+1FA81: 4 bytes in UTF-8 and a length of 2 in JavaScript.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1FA81 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🪁 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🪁 | |
| CSS | content: "\1FA81"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1FA81} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%AA%81 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F AA 81 |
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 | kite |
| Português | pipa |
| Español | cometa |
| Italiano | aquilone |
| Français | cerf-volant |
| Deutsch | Drachen |
| Türkçe | uçurtma |
| Bahasa Indonesia | layang-layang |
| Polski | latawiec |
| Русский | воздушный змей |
| 日本語 | たこ |
| 한국어 | 연 |
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What does the kite emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🪁 "kite" and links it with fly, soar. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the games subgroup of activities.
When was the kite emoji added?
In Emoji 12.0, released in 2019. Phones updated since about 2020 show it.
How do I type the kite emoji?
To find 🪁 quickly, type kite into the emoji search.