The softball emoji is that bright, look-at-me yellow ball with bold red stitching—basically a highlighter pen that learned how to curve. On Apple/iOS it pops as a neon-yellow sphere with two crimson seam arcs, crisp 3D shading, and a tiny top-left highlight that makes it feel fresh out of the equipment bag. It signals everything from weekend slowpitch and intramural bragging to fastpitch drama and windmill-pitch GIFs during the Women’s College World Series. You’ll see it dropped into captions with gloves, bats, and sun emojis to declare “game day,” or paired with beer mugs to scream “beer-league night.”
Culturally, it does double duty as slang: “throwing softballs” means lobbing easy questions, so people use 🥎 to roast interviews that feel like PR fluff. It’s also meme-ready for underhand puns—“underhanded compliment,” anyone? Flirty texts go, “Wanna catch later?” while humblebrags read, “Still got it 🥎💪.” And if you totally whiff on something simple, this emoji works ironically to admit, “Yup, dropped the softball.” The vivid, hi-vis Apple version is instantly recognizable in chats, almost glowing on dark mode and screaming “you can’t miss this pitch.”
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 828 of 2393 |
| Apple/iOS Picture |  |
| Google Android Picture | Image not available |
| Google Hangouts Picture | Image not available |
| Twitter.com Picture | Image not available |
| LG Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Samsung Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Phantom Open Emoji Picture | Not created yet |
| ASCII Conversion | |
| "Short Code" Name | |
| Keywords |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 12 - 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) | 1f94e |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F94E |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 129358 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0xA5 0x8E |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F A5 8E |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 245 216 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83E 0xDD4E |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83edd4e |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55358 56654 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F94E |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F94E |
| UTF-32 Dec | 129358 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F94E" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\xa5\x8e" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83E\uDD4E" |
