The seat emoji is that classic single chair you see at airports, theaters, and bus stations—the universal icon of “park yourself here.” It’s often used when you’re saving a spot for someone, planning movie night, or announcing long-haul travel vibes. Online, it doubles as a gentle clapback: “take a seat” when someone’s doing the most, or “have several seats” when their hot take is boiling over. You’ll also see it in hype posts—pair it with popcorn and a screen when you’re settling in for drama in the comments.
On Apple/iOS, it’s a deep-blue, padded airline-style seat shown from the side, facing left, with a silver metal frame and armrest. The high back and headrest are unmistakable, like row 18, seat B energy—no seatbelt, no tray table, just clean, plush upholstery that screams “economy plus if you manifest hard enough.” That look makes it perfect for flight booking chatter, aisle-vs-window debates, or joking about the eternal “do not recline” discourse. It’s also used playfully for “front row” energy at concerts, game day, or livestreams—because sometimes the best seat in the house is your phone screen.
In texting, it can read as supportive (I saved you a seat), flirt-adjacent (come sit with me), or delightfully shady (ma’am, a seat). Toss it into event invites, study sessions, or binge-watch plans to say, “get comfy, it’s a whole saga.”
Definition
A single blue airplane seat is shown. The rest of the seats are lost. iEmoji old name: Airplane Seat.
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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)
1670 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
:seat:
Keywords
Unicode Category Information
Unicode Category
Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
Unicode Range
1F300–1F5FF
Unicode Subcategory
Office Symbols
Proposed Unicode Information & Notes
Unicode Category
Artifacts
Unicode Subcategory
Office Symbols
Names & Annotations
SEAT Design Note: the glyph should look more like SoftBank #264
Symbol Information
U+1F4BA proposed
Proposal Identifier
e-537
Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes
DoCoMo
#171 'Chair' いす 「isu」 U+E6B2 SJIS-F956 JIS-7D57
KDDI
[いす]
Softbank
#264 #old121 座席 U+E11F SJIS-F75F
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)
1f4ba
Formal Unicode Notation
U+1F4BA
Decimal Code Point(s)
128186
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xF0 0x9F 0x92 0xBA
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
F0 9F 92 BA
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
360 237 222 272
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xD83D 0xDCBA
UTF-16 Hex
d83ddcba
UTF-16 Dec
55357 56506
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0001F4BA
UTF-32 Hex
01F4BA
UTF-32 Dec
128186
Python Src
u"\U0001F4BA"
PHP Src
"\xf0\x9f\x92\xba"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uD83D\uDCBA"
Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)
