Sailboat emoji ⛵
Emoji 0.6 (2010) · U+26F5
What ⛵ means
Sailboat ⛵ goes with these words in Unicode's CLDR: boat, resort, sailing, sea, yacht.
Those words also drive emoji search: try boat or resort on your phone to find ⛵.
On the emoji keyboard, ⛵ sits with the boats and ships (10 emoji) inside travel & places, which has 221 emoji, for example 🛶 🚤 🛳️ ⛴️.
Will ⛵ show on my friend's phone?
⛵ has been around since the very first emoji set (Emoji 0.6, 2010), so every device you can think of shows it.
How to type ⛵
To find ⛵ quickly, type sailboat into the emoji search.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type sailboat.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type sailboat in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type sailboat.
Codes for developers
A character counter sees ⛵ as one code point, U+26F5: 3 bytes in UTF-8 and a length of 1 in JavaScript.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+26F5 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | ⛵ | |
| HTML (decimal) | ⛵ | |
| CSS | content: "\26F5"; | |
| JavaScript | \u26F5 | |
| URL | %E2%9B%B5 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 9B B5 |
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 | sailboat |
| Português | barco a vela |
| Español | velero |
| Italiano | barca a vela |
| Français | voilier |
| Deutsch | Segelboot |
| Türkçe | yelkenli tekne |
| Bahasa Indonesia | perahu layar |
| Polski | żaglówka |
| Русский | парусник |
| 日本語 | ヨット |
| 한국어 | 돛단배 |
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What does the sailboat emoji mean?
Unicode calls ⛵ "sailboat" and links it with boat, resort, sailing, sea. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the boats and ships subgroup of travel & places.
When was the sailboat 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 sailboat emoji?
To find ⛵ quickly, type sailboat into the emoji search.