U+1F6DF "🛟" Ring Buoy Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🛟
U+1F6DF "🛟" Ring Buoy is a pictographic representation of a life preserver or life ring, a flotation device typically shaped like a solid ring and used for water rescue. Officially added to the Unicode Standard in 2017 as part of the Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs block, it is often employed in digital communication to symbolize safety, swimming, beaches, boating, or emergency rescue scenarios. The character depicts a classic red and white striped buoy with a rope or lanyard, reflecting its real world purpose of being thrown to a person in distress to keep them afloat until help arrives.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F6DF |
| Version Added | 14.0 |
| Name | Ring Buoy |
| Block | Transport and Map Symbols |
| 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 0x9B 0x9F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83D 0xDEDF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F6DF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83d\udedf |