U+2708 "✈" Airplane Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
✈
U+2708 "✈" Airplane is a pictographic symbol representing an aircraft, typically depicted as a fixed-wing plane in a top-down or angled view, and is part of the Miscellaneous Symbols block originally included in Unicode 1.1 in 1993. It is widely used in digital communication to denote air travel, airports, flights, or the concept of flying, and has become a universal icon in user interfaces for flight-related apps, websites, and text messages. Although its design can vary across fonts and platforms, ranging from detailed silhouettes to simpler outlines, the character remains a consistent and recognizable representation of an airplane in global computing standards.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2708 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Airplane |
| Block | Dingbats |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ✈ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ✈ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x9C 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2708 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002708 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2708 |