The elevator emoji is the little sign you see near the lobby, now living rent-free in your texts. On Apple/iOS it looks like a blue rounded-square sign with a crisp white pictogram: two people side-by-side inside a box, with an up arrow and a down arrow hovering above them—classic wayfinding vibes. It screams “this way to the lift,” without saying a word, and the clean, minimal design instantly reads like real-life building signage.
Beyond literal directions (events, offices, accessibility notes), people use it metaphorically: leveling up in life, career glow-ups, or mood swings that are currently going either up or down. It’s clutch for posts about an “elevator pitch,” workout avoidance (“stairs? couldn’t be me”), or those “we moving up” moments after good news. Sarcastically, it doubles as a dramatic control panel: up for hype, down for flop; perfect when the group chat’s energy shifts. Pair it with ♿ to flag accessible routes, or with ⬆️⬇️ to underline that emotional rollercoaster you’re riding.
Culturally, it summons awkward small talk, that eternal loop of elevator music, and the mystery of the missing 13th floor. It pops up in “press all the buttons” memes, glow-up announcements, and elevator-selfie captions when the lighting is doing you favors. In short: a tidy little symbol for moving places—physically, emotionally, or straight to the next level of drama.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 1863 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 18 - 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) | 1f6d7 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F6D7 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128727 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x9B 0x97 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 9B 97 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 233 227 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDED7 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83dded7 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 57047 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F6D7 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F6D7 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128727 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F6D7" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x9b\x97" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDED7" |
