Anchor

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Emoji Meaning

1

A blue anchor, as seen on ships. Used as symbol of sticking to someone.

2

The emoji depicts a sea anchor from a ship in gray or blue, which imitates metal. It is used to fix a ship, sailboat, or boat in a body of water in one place.

The anchor is a symbol of stability, but sometimes it can mean "slow down". For example, when someone prevents you from moving towards your goal.

Also Known As

  • Admiralty Pattern Anchor
  • Fisherman

Apple Name

  • Anchor

Unicode Name

  • Anchor

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 ⚓

Tags: anchor, ship, tool

Category: Travel & Places

Subgroup: Water transportation