Compass Emoji
What does the Compass emoji mean?
A polished gold-cased compass featuring an intricate compass rose and a red-tipped needle, designed for confident navigation.
An illustration of a magnetic compass, a classic tool for finding your way across the landscape. It’s typically used together with maps and helps you determine the cardinal directions.
This emoji is often used in conversations about travel, directions of development (metaphorically), and human orientation. Emojis are usually employed in a more indirect sense.
Apple Name
- 🧭 Compass
Unicode Name
- 🧭 Compass
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
Download the Compass emoji
Vector file from the Noto Emoji set by Google, licence CC BY 4.0.
🧭 Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+1F9ED
Shortcodes
- works in Github, Slack, Emojipedia, Discord
For developers
| URL escape code | %F0%9F%A7%AD |
| Punycode | xn--3v9h |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | F0 9F A7 AD |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | \uD83E\uDDED |
| C, C++, Python | \U0001f9ed |
| CSS | \01F9ED |
| PHP, Ruby | \u{1F9ED} |
| Perl | \x{1F9ED} |
| HTML hex | 🧭 |
| HTML dec | 🧭 |
Tags: compa, magnetic, navigation, orienteering, compass, direction
Category: Travel & Places
Subgroup: Maps & globes