The cityscape at dusk emoji is the digital equivalent of stepping onto a balcony and whispering, “Wow, the vibes.” It signals golden-hour glam, post-9-to-5 decompression, and that liminal moment when office lights flick on and the sky decides to do a gradient. People drop it next to skyline pics, travel flexes, first-date recaps, or when they’re pretending their commute is a music video with lofi beats and main-character energy. It also works ironically—like, “Stuck in traffic again 🌆” or “Corporate life but make it cinematic.”
On Apple devices, it’s a tidy postcard-style square: mid-rise and high-rise buildings with glowing windows, front-and-center, against a purple-to-pink-to-orange twilight wash. There’s no big sun disk here (that’s the sister emoji 🌇), just a calm, saturated sky and a clean, straight-on perspective that screams “desktop wallpaper starter pack.” It’s the go-to for urban romance, late meetings turning into late dinners, and those Instagram Stories where the caption is literally just “mood.” Drop it to hint at city trips (NYC, Tokyo, Seoul energy), to soft-launch a relocation, or to add some cinematic sparkle to “I have emails, but the skyline said no.”
Definition
The silhouette of a large city at dusk (the last moments of day light after the sun has completely set). The population is obviously over a million where the sun is setting here.
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Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.
This emoji was part of the proprietary / non-standardized emoji set first introduced by Japanese carriers like Softbank. These emojis became part of the Apple iPhone starting in iOS 2.2 as an unlockable feature on handsets sold in English speaking countries.
In iOS 5 / OSX 10.7, the underlying code that the Apple OS generates for this emoji was changed.
Emoji General Information
Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank)
1293 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
:city_sunset:
Keywords
City, Scape, Sunset, Dusk, Lights, Evening, Metropolitan, Night, Dark
Previous Names:
Sun goes down in the City
Unicode Category Information
Unicode Category
Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
Unicode Range
1F300–1F5FF
Unicode Subcategory
Weather, Landscape, and Sky Symbols
Editorial Comment
The population is obviously over a million where the sun is setting here. Cityscape at Dusk
Proposed Unicode Information & Notes
Unicode Category
Nature
Unicode Subcategory
Weather and Landscape Symbols
Names & Annotations
CITYSCAPE AT DUSK
Symbol Information
U+1F306 proposed
Proposal Identifier
e-00B
Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes
DoCoMo
[夕焼け]
KDDI
#371 夕方街並み 「夕方街並mi」 U+E5DA SJIS-F34D JIS-792E
Softbank
#306 #old160 夕方の街 「夕方no街」 U+E146 SJIS-F787
Emoji Character Encoding Data
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)
1f306
Formal Unicode Notation
U+1F306
Decimal Code Point(s)
127750
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xF0 0x9F 0x8C 0x86
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
F0 9F 8C 86
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
360 237 214 206
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xD83C 0xDF06
UTF-16 Hex
d83cdf06
UTF-16 Dec
55356 57094
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0001F306
UTF-32 Hex
01F306
UTF-32 Dec
127750
Python Src
u"\U0001F306"
PHP Src
"\xf0\x9f\x8c\x86"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uD83C\uDF06"
Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)
