U+1F3C9 "🏉" Rugby Football Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🏉
U+1F3C9 "🏉" Rugby Football is a pictographic representation of the oval ball used in the sport of rugby union or rugby league, distinct from the rounder ball of American or association football. It was added to the Unicode Standard in 2010 as part of Emoji 1.0, typically rendered in a brown or dark color with white laces, symbolizing the game's physical and team oriented nature. This character is commonly used in digital communication to reference the sport itself, matches, or related equipment, and it pairs frequently with other sports emojis to denote athletic events or enthusiasm for rugby.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F3C9 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Rugby Football |
| 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 0x8F 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83C 0xDFC9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F3C9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83c\udfc9 |