basketball

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The basketball emoji is your digital swish: bright, bouncy, and ready for tip-off. People drop it for game-day hype, pickup invites, March Madness chaos, or to brag about a clean three-pointer from the parking lot. It also moonlights as slang—pair it with a DM and suddenly you’re “shooting your shot,” or toss it after a win to say you’re on a heater (🏀🔥). When plans crash spectacularly, it jokes as the “airball” of the group chat, and with a trash can it becomes the classic office “Kobe!” moment.
On Apple/iOS, it looks like a glossy, vivid orange ball with crisp black seams in that familiar eight-panel pattern. There’s subtle pebble texture (tiny dimples) and soft shading that gives it a 3D pop, with a gentle highlight near the top-left like it’s under the gym lights. No hoop, no motion lines—just a clean, slightly angled basketball that screams game time at first glance.
Culturally, it taps into hoop dreams and endless memes—from Jordan nostalgia and Space Jam throwbacks to “Curry range” jokes and buzzer-beater drama. Beyond sports, it’s great for playful responsibility handoffs (“ball’s in your court”), ironic flexes when you are absolutely not ballin’, and celebratory slam-dunk moments at work or school. Use it flirtatiously, sarcastically, or dramatically—this emoji’s got handles on every timeline.

Definition

The sport of basketball. Basketball is played on a rectangle court with two teams of five players. Each team's objective is to put the basketball through the teams basketball hoop on their side of the court. Professional basketball players in the United States of America compete in the National Basketball Association or NBA.

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Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.

1. 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.
2. 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)	426 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	:basketball:
Keywords	Basketball, Bball, Dribble, Hoop, Net, Swish, Rip City
Previous Names:	Basketball and Hoop

Unicode Category Information

Unicode Category	Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
Unicode Range	1F300–1F5FF
Unicode Subcategory	Sport Symbols

Editorial Comment

A light brown basketball laying on the ground. Lets play or watch some BBall! The hoop is obscured by the ball, but we have faith it's there Apple! TY!

Proposed Unicode Information & Notes

Unicode Category	Activities/work/entertainment
Unicode Subcategory	Sport Symbols
Names & Annotations	BASKETBALL AND HOOP Old name: BASKETBALL = basketball Temporary Notes: ball and hoop
Symbol Information	U+1F3C0 proposed
Proposal Identifier	e-7D6

Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes

DoCoMo	#27 'Basketball' バスケットボール 「basuketsutobooru」 U+E658 SJIS-F8B9 JIS-7839
KDDI	#307 バスケットボール 「basuketsutobooru」 U+E59A SJIS-F7B7 JIS-7839
Softbank	#155 #old389 バスケットボール 「basuketsutobooru」 U+E42A SJIS-FB6A

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)	e42a
Formal Unicode Notation	U+E42A
Decimal Code Point(s)	58410
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)	0xEE 0x90 0xAA
UTF-8 Hex Bytes	EE 90 AA
UTF-8 Octal Bytes	356 220 252
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)	0xE42A
UTF-16 Hex	e42a
UTF-16 Dec	58410
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)	0x0000E42A
UTF-32 Hex	E42A
UTF-32 Dec	58410
Python Src	u"\uE42A"
PHP Src	"\xee\x90\xaa"
C/C++/Java Src	"\uE42A"

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)	1f3c0
Formal Unicode Notation	U+1F3C0
Decimal Code Point(s)	127936
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)	0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0x80
UTF-8 Hex Bytes	F0 9F 8F 80
UTF-8 Octal Bytes	360 237 217 200
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)	0xD83C 0xDFC0
UTF-16 Hex	d83cdfc0
UTF-16 Dec	55356 57280
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)	0x0001F3C0
UTF-32 Hex	01F3C0
UTF-32 Dec	127936
Python Src	u"\U0001F3C0"
PHP Src	"\xf0\x9f\x8f\x80"
C/C++/Java Src	"\uD83C\uDFC0"

Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)