U+1F946 "🥆" Rifle Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🥆
U+1F946 "🥆" Rifle is a pictographic symbol representing a long barreled firearm designed for precision shooting, often associated with hunting, sport shooting, or military use. Added to the Unicode Standard in 2016 as part of the Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs block, this character is intended for digital communication, though its depiction varies across platforms, sometimes showing a classic wooden stock and scope. Its usage in text can convey themes of marksmanship, hunting, or weaponry, but it is less commonly employed than other weapon emojis due to potential sensitivities regarding firearms in certain contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F946 |
| Version Added | 9.0 |
| Name | Rifle |
| Block | Supplemental 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 0xA5 0x86 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83E 0xDD46 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F946 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83e\udd46 |
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 |