Milky Way Emoji 🌌
Emoji Meaning
The Milky Way emoji shows our galaxy from Earth. Some platforms depict this phenomenon from above, and all of them represent a wonderful combination of blue, purple, and black colours.
The symbol “Milky Way” is included in the “Weather, landscape, and sky symbols” subblock of the “Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 6.0 in 2010. In 2015, it was also approved as an Emoji in version 1.0 and added to the “Sky & Weather” subcategory of the “Travel & Places” category.
Synonyms
Galaxy, night sky, space, stars, universe.
| Unicode Name | Milky Way |
| Unicode Number | |
| HTML Code | |
| CSS Code | |
| Plane | 1: Supplementary Multilingual Plane |
| Unicode Block | Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs |
| Unicode Subblock | Weather, landscape, and sky symbols |
| Unicode Version | 6.0 (2010) |
| Emoji Version | 1.0 (2015) |
| Emoji Category | Travel & Places |
| Emoji Subcategory | Sky & Weather |
| Emoji Name | Milky Way |
| Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) | None |
| Composition Exclusion | No |
| Case change | 1F30C |
| Simple case change | 1F30C |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | F0 9F 8C 8C | 240 159 140 140 | 4036988044 | 11110000 10011111 10001100 10001100 |
| UTF-16BE | D8 3C DF 0C | 216 60 223 12 | 3627867916 | 11011000 00111100 11011111 00001100 |
| UTF-16LE | 3C D8 0C DF | 60 216 12 223 | 1020792031 | 00111100 11011000 00001100 11011111 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 01 F3 0C | 0 1 243 12 | 127756 | 00000000 00000001 11110011 00001100 |
| UTF-32LE | 0C F3 01 00 | 12 243 1 0 | 217252096 | 00001100 11110011 00000001 00000000 |
