U+1F6EA "🛪" Northeast-Pointing Airplane Unicode Character

U+1F6EA "🛪" Northeast-Pointing Airplane is a transport symbol representing an aircraft oriented diagonally towards the northeast direction, commonly used to indicate northeastward flight paths, airport signage, or navigation related to air travel. It was added to the Unicode Standard as part of the Transport and Map Symbols block in Unicode 7.0, released in 2014, and serves as a directional variant of the generic airplane emoji, offering more precise geographic orientation for maps, travel itineraries, or digital interfaces. Despite its specific name and utility, the character is less commonly used than the standard airplane emoji, and its appearance and support can vary significantly across different platforms and devices, with some systems displaying it as a simple silhouette or outline rather than a detailed graphic.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1F6EA
Version Added	7.0
Name	Northeast-Pointing 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 0xAA
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83D 0xDEEA
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001F6EA
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83d\udeea

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