Compass Emoji 🧭
Emoji Meaning
A compass with a magnetic red-and-grey arrow, which is commonly used for navigation and travelling. It may also be associated with sea expeditions and local orientation in general. In addition, it serves as a metaphor for “finding your way”.
The symbol “Compass” is included in the “Objects” subblock of the “Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 11.0 in 2018. In 2018, it was also approved as an Emoji in version 11.0 and added to the “Map” subcategory of the “Travel & Places” category.
| Unicode Name | Compass |
| Unicode Number | |
| HTML Code | |
| CSS Code | |
| Plane | 1: Supplementary Multilingual Plane |
| Unicode Block | Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs |
| Unicode Subblock | Objects |
| Unicode Version | 11.0 (2018) |
| Emoji Version | 11.0 (2018) |
| Emoji Category | Travel & Places |
| Emoji Subcategory | Map |
| Emoji Name | Compass |
| Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) | None |
| Composition Exclusion | No |
| Case change | 1F9ED |
| Simple case change | 1F9ED |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | F0 9F A7 AD | 240 159 167 173 | 4036994989 | 11110000 10011111 10100111 10101101 |
| UTF-16BE | D8 3E DD ED | 216 62 221 237 | 3627998701 | 11011000 00111110 11011101 11101101 |
| UTF-16LE | 3E D8 ED DD | 62 216 237 221 | 1054404061 | 00111110 11011000 11101101 11011101 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 01 F9 ED | 0 1 249 237 | 129517 | 00000000 00000001 11111001 11101101 |
| UTF-32LE | ED F9 01 00 | 237 249 1 0 | 3992518912 | 11101101 11111001 00000001 00000000 |
