• used to indicate international input source, world clocks with time zones, etc.
The globe with meridians is your go-to “we are extremely online” badge—a shiny, lat–long grid wrapped around a blue sphere that screams World Wide Web energy. On Apple/iOS, it’s a glossy, teal-blue orb with crisp white latitude and longitude lines, subtle 3D shading, and a bright highlight at the upper left, like a studio light hitting a glass paperweight. No continents here—just the wireframe vibes, the universal look of connectivity, and that unmistakable “internet” aesthetic you’ve seen on browser icons and 90s news intros.
People drop this when they’re talking worldwide reach, posting an update that applies “to the entire planet, actually,” or flexing multilingual mode (think: new website launch, global shipping, or “my DMs are open in any time zone”). It doubles as a wink to translations and language switching—the same globe you tap to swap keyboards on iPhone—and pops up with VPN jokes, remote-work bragging, and “brb aligning nine time zones” chaos. In meme land, it’s the instant upgrade for anything graduating from local tea to international drama: one TikTok blows up and suddenly you’re “global.” It can be used flirtatiously (“I can show you the world” energy), sarcastically (“announcing a worldwide policy: don’t text me at 3 a.m.”), or dramatically (“we go live to the entire internet in 5…”).
Culturally, it channels the early-web dream of a connected planet—dot-com nostalgia without the dial-up tone. Visually simple yet iconic, it reads as newsy, techy, and borderless at a glance, making it perfect for big announcements, cross-cultural convos, or just pretending your group chat is the UN.
A globe (Earth) with geographical dividing lines used to distinguish between the Northern and Southern Hemisphere (Equator), Eastern and Western Hemisphere (Prime Meridian). Includes the 45th parallel north and 45th parallel south, the halfway marks between the Equator and North Pole (45th parallel north) and the Equator and South Pole (45th parallel south).
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 493 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 | :globe_with_meridians: |
| Keywords | Earth, Meridian, Globe, Space, Planet, Home |
| Unicode Category | Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs |
| Unicode Range | 1F300–1F5FF |
| Unicode Subcategory | Moon, Sun, and Star Symbols |
| 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) | 1f310 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F310 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127760 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x8C 0x90 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 8C 90 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 214 220 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDF10 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cdf10 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 57104 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F310 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F310 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127760 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F310" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x8c\x90" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDF10" |
