⚓ Anchor
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Emoji Meaning
1
A blue ship’s anchor — a nautical emblem of steadfast loyalty, symbolizing the promise to stand by someone through thick and thin.
2
The emoji depicts a sea anchor, shown in gray or blue to suggest metal. It's used to secure a ship, sailboat, or boat in the water to keep it in one place.
The anchor represents stability, but it can also mean "slow down" — for example, when something or someone prevents you from moving toward your goal.
Also Known As
- ⚓ Admiralty Pattern Anchor
- ⚓ Fisherman
Apple Name
- ⚓ Anchor
Unicode Name
- ⚓ Anchor
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
⚓ Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+2693
Shortcodes
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For developers
| URL escape code | %E2%9A%93 |
| Punycode | xn--r7h |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | E2 9A 93 |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | \u2693 |
| C, C++, Python | \u2693 |
| CSS | \2693 |
| PHP, Ruby | \u{2693} |
| Perl | \x{2693} |
| HTML hex | ⚓ |
| HTML dec | ⚓ |