A whole galaxy, pocket-sized. The Milky Way emoji paints a star-soaked night with a bright, cloudy ribbon of stardust sweeping across the sky—instant cosmic vibes. On Apple/iOS, it’s a diagonal band of stars over an indigo-to-violet gradient, with a dark mountain or treeline silhouette at the bottom and crisp pinprick stars that look like someone sprinkled glitter on the universe. You can practically hear the lo-fi beats and smell the campfire.
People drop it for wanderlust captions, astrophotography flexes, and that “we’re tiny specks lol” existential mood. It doubles as a romantic cue for stargazing dates, a dreamy way to say “you’re my whole galaxy,” and a cheeky pun when you need space… literally: “I need space.” It can be sarcastic, too—used to overhype something mundane (“this oatmeal? absolutely galactic”). It pops up with vaporwave/spacecore aesthetics, late-night road trip posts, and alien-meme energy (“brb, contacting headquarters”). Not to be confused with the shooting star or sparkles; this one’s the full cinematic night sky, the IMAX version for your texts.
Definition
We live in the Milky Way Galaxy. A galaxy is a collection of spiraling space objects, such as suns, planets, gases and dust. On really clear nights in areas away from the lights of the city, the portion of the Milky Way closest to Earth can be seen with the naked eye. It makes the night sky look milky.
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Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.
This emoji first appeared in OSX / iOS after the iOS 5 update.
Emoji General Information
Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank)
1239 of 2393
Apple/iOS Picture
Google Android Picture
Google Hangouts Picture
Twitter.com Picture
LG Emoji Picture
Samsung Emoji Picture
Phantom Open Emoji Picture
ASCII Conversion
"Short Code" Name
:milky_way:
Keywords
Milky, Galaxy, Star, Stars, Planets, Space, Sky
Unicode Category Information
Unicode Category
Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
Unicode Range
1F300–1F5FF
Unicode Subcategory
Globe Symbols
Proposed Unicode Information & Notes
Unicode Category
Nature
Unicode Subcategory
Astronomical Symbols
Names & Annotations
MILKY WAY
Symbol Information
U+1F30C proposed
Proposal Identifier
e-03B
Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes
DoCoMo
#172 'Night' 夜 U+E6B3 SJIS-F957 JIS-7A47
KDDI
#781 天の川 「天no川」 U+EB5F SJIS-F463 JIS-7B44
Softbank
#307 #old422 流れ星 「流re星」 U+E44B SJIS-FB8C
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)
1f30c
Formal Unicode Notation
U+1F30C
Decimal Code Point(s)
127756
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xF0 0x9F 0x8C 0x8C
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
F0 9F 8C 8C
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
360 237 214 214
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xD83C 0xDF0C
UTF-16 Hex
d83cdf0c
UTF-16 Dec
55356 57100
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0001F30C
UTF-32 Hex
01F30C
UTF-32 Dec
127756
Python Src
u"\U0001F30C"
PHP Src
"\xf0\x9f\x8c\x8c"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uD83C\uDF0C"
Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)
