U+26F8 "⛸" Ice Skate Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⛸
U+26F8 "⛸" Ice Skate is a pictographic symbol representing a single ice skate, typically featuring a boot with a blade attached to the bottom, as used for ice skating sports like hockey or figure skating. It was added to the Unicode Standard in version 5.2, released in 2009, as part of the Miscellaneous Symbols block, intended for use in digital text to convey winter sports, cold weather activities, or recreational ice skating. The glyph is often rendered in black and white or color depending on the platform, and it can be used in contexts ranging from weather forecasts to event schedules for skating competitions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+26F8 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Ice Skate |
| 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 0x9B 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x26F8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000026F8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u26f8 |