U+1F30C "🌌" Milky Way Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🌌
U+1F30C "🌌" Milky Way is a pictographic symbol that represents the spiral galaxy containing our solar system, often depicted as a swirling band of stars against a dark blue or purple cosmic background. Commonly used in digital communication to convey concepts of astronomy, space exploration, wonder, and the vastness of the universe, this emoji can also express feelings of dreaminess, mystery, or being lost in thought. It was officially added to the Unicode Standard in 2010 as part of Unicode 6.0 under the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block, and it remains a popular choice for representing the night sky or celestial themes in texts and social media.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F30C |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Milky Way |
| Block | Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 🌌 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 🌌 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9F 0x8C 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83C 0xDF0C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F30C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83c\udf0c |