compass

Group: Travel & places · Subgroup: Place map · Emoji 11

Keywords

compass
direction
magnetic
navigation
orienteering

About this character

compass belongs to the Travel & places group and is encoded at U+1F9ED. It was added in Unicode 11.0.

Shortcode

Chat apps such as Slack, Discord and GitHub accept this shortcode instead of the character itself.

Technical codes

Code point: U+1F9ED
Hex: 1F9ED
Decimal: 129517
HTML: 🧭
CSS: \1F9ED
JavaScript: \u{1F9ED}
Python: \U0001F9ED
UTF-8: F0 9F A7 AD

The same character is drawn differently by each operating system and font.

globe showing Europe-Africa U+1F30D Similar
globe showing Americas U+1F30E Similar
globe showing Asia-Australia U+1F30F Similar
globe with meridians U+1F310 Similar
world map U+1F5FA Similar
map of Japan U+1F5FE Similar

Questions

Why does this emoji look different on my phone?

Unicode standardises the meaning of a character, not its drawing. Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung each ship their own artwork, so the same code point changes shape between devices.

Does copying work everywhere?

The character is copied as plain text, so it pastes into any app that accepts text. If the receiving app has no font for it, you will see an empty box instead.