Ladder emoji 🪜
Emoji 13.0 (2020) · U+1FA9C
What 🪜 means
Ladder 🪜 goes with these words in Unicode's CLDR: climb, rung, step.
Those words also drive emoji search: try climb or rung on your phone to find 🪜.
On the emoji keyboard, 🪜 sits with the tools (28 emoji) inside objects, which has 268 emoji, for example 🔨 🪓 ⛏️.
Will 🪜 show on my friend's phone?
🪜 dates from Emoji 13.0 (2020). Unless a phone has gone years without an update, it shows it.
How to type 🪜
To find 🪜 quickly, type ladder into the emoji search.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type ladder.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type ladder in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type ladder.
Codes for developers
A character counter sees 🪜 as one code point, U+1FA9C: 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+1FA9C | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🪜 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🪜 | |
| CSS | content: "\1FA9C"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1FA9C} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%AA%9C | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F AA 9C |
Names in other languages
The CLDR name of 🪜 in the 12 languages of this site. Each links to that language's page.
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What does the ladder emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🪜 "ladder" and links it with climb, rung, step. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the tools subgroup of objects.
When was the ladder emoji added?
In Emoji 13.0, released in 2020. Phones updated since about 2021 show it.
How do I type the ladder emoji?
To find 🪜 quickly, type ladder into the emoji search.