U+1F3B3 "🎳" Bowling Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🎳
U+1F3B3 "🎳" Bowling is a pictographic representation of a single bowling ball and a single bowling pin, typically depicted in bright, distinct colors like a blue or red ball and a white or red pin. This character is used in digital communication to directly express the sport of bowling itself, or metaphorically to suggest ideas of striking, knocking something over, or engaging in a recreational activity with friends. As part of the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block, it was added to the Unicode Standard in 2010 with version 6.0, and it has since become a common graphical element in emoji keyboards across various platforms, though its specific design may vary slightly between different operating systems and devices.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F3B3 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bowling |
| 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 0x8E 0xB3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83C 0xDFB3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F3B3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83c\udfb3 |