U+1F6E6 "🛦" Up-Pointing Military Airplane Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🛦
U+1F6E6 "🛦" Up-Pointing Military Airplane is a symbol included in the Transport and Map Symbols block, representing a military aircraft oriented in an upward direction, often used to denote airbases, military aviation units, or flight paths in mapping and transportation contexts. It was added to the Unicode Standard in 2014 as part of version 7.0, and its design typically features a stylized airplane silhouette with a distinct, angled shape that differentiates it from civilian aircraft icons. While not as widely supported as more common emoji, it serves as a specific and unambiguous graphic for military aviation in digital documents, signage, and navigation systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F6E6 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Up-Pointing Military Airplane |
| 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 0xA6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83D 0xDEE6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F6E6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83d\udee6 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Ideographic |
| Script | Common |
| Script Extensions | Common |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Vertical Orientation | Upright |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |