= archery target, hitting the target → 25CE ◎ bullseye
Information
The bullseye emoji is the internet’s official “nailed it” sticker—red-and-white rings with a dart smack in the center, perfect for calling out an accurate take, a correct guess, or a clutch moment. People drop 🎯 to celebrate hitting goals, landing the perfect roast, or when someone predicts the plot twist before the second episode. It’s also a productivity brag: used with study timers, gym PRs, OKRs, and “focus mode” posts—aka the emoji equivalent of laser sight. Playful twist: it can be flirty too (as in, “you’re exactly my type 🎯”), or ironic when someone misses wildly but still wants the meme points.
On Apple/iOS, 🎯 shows a glossy red-and-white target with crisp concentric circles and a blue dart stuck dead-center, gold/metal tip forward, angled just enough to look satisfyingly 3D. The clean shading and slight tilt make it instantly recognizable—more arcade-perfect than pub wall-worn. Culturally, it channels darts at the bar, Olympic archery vibes, and even the “Target” store pun people can’t resist. Common combos: 🎯🔥 for a scorcher of a take, 🎯🧠 for a galaxy-brain prediction, and 🎯❤️ when Cupid gets credit. Use it to punctuate “right on the money,” to cheer a friend’s win, or sarcastically when the shot was… not exactly SportsCenter material.
Definition
A red and white circled dartboard with a blue dart sticking smack dab in the center of board. Direct Hit! or Bulls eye! If you are American. iEmoji old name: Bulls Eye.
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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)
648 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
:dart:
Keywords
Direct, Hit, Bullseye, Dart, Archery, Game, Fletching, Arrow, Sport
Previous Names:
Direct Hit
Unicode Category Information
Unicode Category
Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
Unicode Range
1F300–1F5FF
Unicode Subcategory
Game Symbols
Proposed Unicode Information & Notes
Unicode Category
Activities/work/entertainment
Unicode Subcategory
Game Symbols
Names & Annotations
DIRECT HIT = archery target, hitting the target x (bullseye - 25CE)
Symbol Information
U+1F3AF proposed
Proposal Identifier
e-80C
Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes
DoCoMo
[的中]
KDDI
#231 当選弓矢 U+E4C5 SJIS-F69E JIS-757E
Softbank
#141 #old138 当たり 「当tari」 U+E130 SJIS-F770
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)
1f3af
Formal Unicode Notation
U+1F3AF
Decimal Code Point(s)
127919
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xF0 0x9F 0x8E 0xAF
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
F0 9F 8E AF
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
360 237 216 257
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xD83C 0xDFAF
UTF-16 Hex
d83cdfaf
UTF-16 Dec
55356 57263
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0001F3AF
UTF-32 Hex
01F3AF
UTF-32 Dec
127919
Python Src
u"\U0001F3AF"
PHP Src
"\xf0\x9f\x8e\xaf"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uD83C\uDFAF"
Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)
