The office building emoji is your compact skyline: a sleek, glassy high-rise that screams corporate HQ without the parking fees. On Apple/iOS, it appears as a cool-toned blue skyscraper, shown at a slight angle, with a tidy grid of pale-blue windows stacked like spreadsheet cells and crisp highlights on a clean, boxy silhouette. It’s commonly used to mean work, the 9-to-5 grind, downtown commutes, or that familiar cocktail of fluorescent lighting and burnt coffee. Expect it in texts about return-to-office updates, in sarcastic posts about “touch grass” never, and in LinkedIn-core captions that pair hustle talk with three of these in a row.
It also doubles as shorthand for HQ, the firm, or simply “I’m at the building—come downstairs” when meeting in the business district. In meme form, it tags along with briefcase, chart increasing, or even coffin to narrate an overtime arc; or with party popper to celebrate escaping on Friday. Fans of The Office drop it for instant Scranton energy, while flirty texters occasionally use it with a wink to suggest “office hours” that aren’t exactly on the calendar. In short: ambition, exhaustion, and city-core aesthetic—all packed into one shiny stack of windows.
Elvis has left the office. Skyscraper with many windows.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 1195 of 2393 |
| Apple/iOS Picture |  |
| Google Android Picture |  |
| Google Hangouts Picture |  |
| Twitter.com Picture |  |
| LG Emoji Picture |  |
| Samsung Emoji Picture |  |
| Phantom Open Emoji Picture | Not created yet |
| ASCII Conversion | |
| "Short Code" Name | :office: |
| Keywords |
| Unicode Category | Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs |
| Unicode Range | 1F300–1F5FF |
| Unicode Subcategory | Building and Map Symbols |
| Unicode Category | Artifacts |
| Unicode Subcategory | Building and Map Symbols |
| Names & Annotations | OFFICE BUILDING |
| Symbol Information | U+1F3E2 proposed |
| Proposal Identifier | e-4B2 |
| DoCoMo | #39 'Building' ビル 「biru」 U+E664 SJIS-F8C5 JIS-7566 |
| KDDI | #156 工場・建物 U+E4AD SJIS-F686 JIS-7566 |
| Softbank | #322 #old56 ビル 「biru」 U+E038 SJIS-F978 |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 4 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) | e038 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+E038 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 57400 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xEE 0x80 0xB8 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | EE 80 B8 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 356 200 270 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xE038 |
| UTF-16 Hex | e038 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 57400 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0000E038 |
| UTF-32 Hex | E038 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 57400 |
| Python Src | u"\uE038" |
| PHP Src | "\xee\x80\xb8" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uE038" |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 5 - Current |
|---|---|
| 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) | 1f3e2 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F3E2 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127970 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xA2 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 8F A2 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 217 242 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDFE2 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cdfe2 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 57314 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F3E2 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F3E2 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127970 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F3E2" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x8f\xa2" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDFE2" |
| Emoji Encoding | DoCoMo | KDDI | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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) | e664 | e4ad | fe4b2 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+E664 | U+E4AD | U+FE4B2 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 58980 | 58541 | 1041586 |
| UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xEE 0x99 0xA4 | 0xEE 0x92 0xAD | 0xF3 0xBE 0x92 0xB2 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | EE 99 A4 | EE 92 AD | F3 BE 92 B2 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 356 231 244 | 356 222 255 | 363 276 222 262 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xE664 | 0xE4AD | 0xDBB9 0xDCB2 |
| UTF-16 Hex | e664 | e4ad | dbb9dcb2 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 58980 | 58541 | 56249 56498 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0000E664 | 0x0000E4AD | 0x000FE4B2 |
| UTF-32 Hex | E664 | E4AD | 0FE4B2 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 58980 | 58541 | 1041586 |
| Python Src | u"\uE664" | u"\uE4AD" | u"\U000FE4B2" |
| PHP Src | "\xee\x99\xa4" | "\xee\x92\xad" | "\xf3\xbe\x92\xb2" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uE664" | "\uE4AD" | "\uDBB9\uDCB2" |
