Anchor

Ancla

= nautical term, harbor (on maps) ⁓ 2693 FE0E text style ⁓ 2693 FE0F emoji style

An anchor is used to hold a floating vessel (boat or ship) in one place. A heavy weight attached to a boat with a chain that is thrown into the water (overboard) until it hits the bottom of the body of water, such as the ocean floor. A navigational symbol for a marina, harbor, or shipyard. A stereotypical tattoo found on a sailor, such as the cartoon character Popeye the Sailor Man.

Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.

This emoji first appeared in OSX / iOS after the iOS 5 update.
The code generated for this emoji was changed slightly in iOS 7 / OSX 10.9 (a variation selector was added) advising the OS to display character emoji style instead of black and white text when available. We don't mind Apple, thank you! We just love our emojis! [Sources 11438-emoji-var.pdf 13.7 Variation Selectors (unicode.org)]

Emoji General Information

Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank)	438 of 2393
Apple/iOS Picture
Google Android Picture
Google Hangouts Picture
Twitter.com Picture
LG Emoji Picture
Samsung Emoji Picture
Phantom Open Emoji Picture
ASCII Conversion
"Short Code" Name	:anchor:
Keywords	Anchor, Ship, Boat, Ocean, Harbor, Marina, Shipyard, Sailor, Tattoo

Unicode Category Information

Unicode Category	Miscellaneous Symbols
Unicode Range	2600–26FF
Unicode Subcategory	Dictionary and Map Symbols

Editorial Comment

Why is the boat so sluggish and won't pick up speed...?

Proposed Unicode Information & Notes

Unicode Category	Artifacts
Unicode Subcategory	Building and Map Symbols
Names & Annotations	ANCHOR = ARIB-9121 Temporary Notes: nautical term, harbor (on maps)
Symbol Information	⚓ U+2693 unified (Unicode 4.1)
Proposal Identifier	e-4C1

Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes

DoCoMo	#36 'Ship' 船 U+E661 SJIS-F8C2 JIS-7936
KDDI	#211 港(いかりマーク) 「港(ikarimaaku)」 U+E4A9 SJIS-F682 JIS-7562
Softbank	#210 #old182 船 U+E202 SJIS-F7A2

Emoji Character Encoding Data

Emoji Code Version	iOS 5 Code
UTF-8 Unicode Character(s)	⚓
UTF-8 Character Count	1
Character(s) In Input
AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS)	⚓
Decimal HTML Entity	⚓
Hexadecimal HTML Entity	⚓
Hex Code Point(s)	2693
Formal Unicode Notation	U+2693
Decimal Code Point(s)	9875
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)	0xE2 0x9A 0x93
UTF-8 Hex Bytes	E2 9A 93
UTF-8 Octal Bytes	342 232 223
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)	0x2693
UTF-16 Hex	2693
UTF-16 Dec	9875
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)	0x00002693
UTF-32 Hex	2693
UTF-32 Dec	9875
Python Src	u"\u2693"
PHP Src	"\xe2\x9a\x93"
C/C++/Java Src	"\u2693"

Emoji Code Version	iOS 7 - Current
UTF-8 Unicode Character(s)	⚓️
UTF-8 Character Count	2
Character(s) In Input
AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS)	⚓️
Decimal HTML Entity	⚓ ️
Hexadecimal HTML Entity	⚓ ️
Hex Code Point(s)	2693, fe0f
Formal Unicode Notation	U+2693, U+FE0F
Decimal Code Point(s)	9875, 65039
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)	0xE2 0x9A 0x93, 0xEF 0xB8 0x8F
UTF-8 Hex Bytes	E2 9A 93, EF B8 8F
UTF-8 Octal Bytes	342 232 223, 357 270 217
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)	0x2693, 0xFE0F
UTF-16 Hex	2693, fe0f
UTF-16 Dec	9875, 65039
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)	0x00002693 0x0000FE0F
UTF-32 Hex	2693, FE0F
UTF-32 Dec	9875, 65039
Python Src	u"\u2693\uFE0F"
PHP Src	"\xe2\x9a\x93\xef\xb8\x8f"
C/C++/Java Src	"\u2693\uFE0F"

Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)

Emoji Encoding	DoCoMo	KDDI	Google
UTF-8 Unicode Character(s)			󾓁
UTF-8 Character Count	1	1	1
Character(s) In Input
Decimal HTML Entity			󾓁
Hexadecimal HTML Entity			󾓁
Hex Code Point(s)	e661	e4a9	fe4c1
Formal Unicode Notation	U+E661	U+E4A9	U+FE4C1
Decimal Code Point(s)	58977	58537	1041601
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)	0xEE 0x99 0xA1	0xEE 0x92 0xA9	0xF3 0xBE 0x93 0x81
UTF-8 Hex Bytes	EE 99 A1	EE 92 A9	F3 BE 93 81
UTF-8 Octal Bytes	356 231 241	356 222 251	363 276 223 201
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)	0xE661	0xE4A9	0xDBB9 0xDCC1
UTF-16 Hex	e661	e4a9	dbb9dcc1
UTF-16 Dec	58977	58537	56249 56513
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)	0x0000E661	0x0000E4A9	0x000FE4C1
UTF-32 Hex	E661	E4A9	0FE4C1
UTF-32 Dec	58977	58537	1041601
Python Src	u"\uE661"	u"\uE4A9"	u"\U000FE4C1"
PHP Src	"\xee\x99\xa1"	"\xee\x92\xa9"	"\xf3\xbe\x93\x81"
C/C++/Java Src	"\uE661"	"\uE4A9"	"\uDBB9\uDCC1"