U+1F3EC "🏬" Department Store Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🏬
U+1F3EC "🏬" Department Store is a pictographic representation of a large commercial building, typically depicted with a wide entrance, a prominent awning, and multiple floors marked by windows, symbolizing a retail establishment that sells a variety of goods. This emoji is part of the "Buildings" category in Unicode and is frequently used in digital communication to denote shopping, commerce, or the concept of a busy urban retail environment. Its design can vary slightly across different platforms, but it universally conveys the idea of a department store or a large shopping venue, making it a useful visual shorthand for discussions about consumerism, city life, or planned outings to buy items.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F3EC |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Department Store |
| 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 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83C 0xDFEC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F3EC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83c\udfec |