The compass emoji is the pocket-sized navigator you toss into chats when you need direction—literal, emotional, or meme-otional. On iOS, it’s a sleek round dial with an orange-gold bezel, a pale gray face, crisp tick marks, a bold red-and-white needle angling slightly northeast, and a standout red N that basically yells, “this way, fam.” The flat, top-down view with neat shading gives it that Apple-gear polish, low-key echoing the Safari browser’s explorer vibe. You’ll see it in travel threads, hiking plans, and road-trip group chats, or as a hopeful “I’ll find my way” after taking three wrong subway lines.
It doubles as a moral compass—great for “choose your path” pep talks—or as a dramatic “I’m lost in life but cute about it.” In meme-land, it tags posts about navigating red flags, finding your true north after a messy breakup, or surviving Mercury-in-retrograde chaos. Sarcastically, it’s perfect for “where are we going with this convo?” or “my sense of direction left the chat.” Flirt mode: “My compass keeps pointing to you” (cringe that somehow works). Culturally it nods to explorers and orienteering, while Pirates of the Caribbean fans still joke about Jack Sparrow’s desire-pointing compass. It also moonlights as a subtle “send location?” nudge, or a prompt to explore new tabs, trails, and life routes.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 820 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) | 1f9ed |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F9ED |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 129517 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0xA7 0xAD |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F A7 AD |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 247 255 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83E 0xDDED |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83edded |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55358 56813 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F9ED |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F9ED |
| UTF-32 Dec | 129517 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F9ED" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\xa7\xad" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83E\uDDED" |
