The rocket emoji is pure liftoff energy—speed, ambition, and that glorious launch-day adrenaline in one tiny icon. On Apple/iOS, it’s a sleek silver body with a glossy red nose cone and fins, a bright blue porthole, and a hot orange-yellow flame blasting out the back, angled up and to the right like it’s already breaking gravity. It screams movement and momentum, whether you’re shipping a feature, starting a side hustle, or hyping a playlist that just keeps ascending. It’s the universal visual for “we’re going up,” “this is taking off,” and “strap in.”
Online, it’s the battle cry of TO THE MOON posts, startup decks, and celebratory launch threads—often paired with LFG and Let’s gooo for maximum hype. Gamers drop it after ranking up; gym buddies fire it off for a new PR; music stans deploy it for album drops and streaming spikes. In finance and meme culture, it lives next to stonks jokes and “up only” banter, while in DMs it can read flirtatious—our chemistry = launch sequence initiated. It also goes full ironic: posting a single pavement step as “progress 🚀,” or responding to a 1% improvement like it’s a Mars mission. Whether it’s sincere momentum or wink-wink drama, that red-and-silver capsule with the blue window is instantly read as go time.
Definition
A rocket is used to fly and push something through the air. The fins on a rocket help keep it stabilized and headed in the correct direction. Fuel is pushed out the back and ignited (burned) to propel it forward. Large powerful rockets are used to put people and objects into space. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) uses rockets at the Kennedy Space Center. Blast off. To the moon! As Buzz Lightyear once said, "to infinity and beyond."
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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)
458 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
:rocket:
Keywords
Rocket, Space, Spacecraft, Astronaut, Cosmonaut
Unicode Category Information
Unicode Category
Transport and Map Symbols
Unicode Range
1F680–1F6FF
Unicode Subcategory
Vehicles
Editorial Comment
This Spacecraft is equipped with a working red rocket engine.
Proposed Unicode Information & Notes
Unicode Category
Activities/work/entertainment
Unicode Subcategory
Vehicles
Names & Annotations
ROCKET
Symbol Information
U+1F680 proposed
Proposal Identifier
e-7ED
Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes
DoCoMo
[ロケット]
KDDI
#353 ロケット 「roketsuto」 U+E5C8 SJIS-F7F8 JIS-787A
Softbank
#213 #old103 ロケット 「roketsuto」 U+E10D SJIS-F74D
Emoji Character Encoding Data
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)
e10d
Formal Unicode Notation
U+E10D
Decimal Code Point(s)
57613
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xEE 0x84 0x8D
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
EE 84 8D
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
356 204 215
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xE10D
UTF-16 Hex
e10d
UTF-16 Dec
57613
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0000E10D
UTF-32 Hex
E10D
UTF-32 Dec
57613
Python Src
u"\uE10D"
PHP Src
"\xee\x84\x8d"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uE10D"
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)
1f680
Formal Unicode Notation
U+1F680
Decimal Code Point(s)
128640
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xF0 0x9F 0x9A 0x80
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
F0 9F 9A 80
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
360 237 232 200
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xD83D 0xDE80
UTF-16 Hex
d83dde80
UTF-16 Dec
55357 56960
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0001F680
UTF-32 Hex
01F680
UTF-32 Dec
128640
Python Src
u"\U0001F680"
PHP Src
"\xf0\x9f\x9a\x80"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uD83D\uDE80"
Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)
