U+26BD "⚽" Soccer Ball Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⚽
U+26BD "⚽" Soccer Ball is a pictographic representation of a classic black and white soccer ball, designed to visually convey the sport of soccer or association football. Introduced in Unicode version 5.2 in 2009, it is commonly used in digital text and emoji sequences to denote games, sports activities, athletic events, or general enthusiasm for football, and it often appears in contexts ranging from match schedules and team messages to travel plans involving the sport.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+26BD |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Soccer Ball |
| Block | Miscellaneous Symbols |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⚽ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⚽ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x9A 0xBD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x26BD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000026BD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u26bd |