🏀 Basketball is an emoji from the Activities category. Its Unicode code point is U+1F3C0 and it was released in Unicode 6.0 (2010). Press Copy to paste it anywhere.
What does 🏀 Basketball mean?
The 🏀 Basketball emoji belongs to the sports group of the Activities category. You will see it in chats and captions related to ball, hoop and sport. It was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and works on virtually every modern phone and computer. In Slack, Discord and GitHub you can type :basketball: to insert it.
Basketball emoji codes
| Emoji | 🏀 |
|---|---|
| Unicode | U+1F3C0 |
| HTML entity (decimal) | 🏀 |
| HTML entity (hex) | 🏀 |
| CSS | \1F3C0 |
| JavaScript | \u{1F3C0} |
| Python | \U0001F3C0 |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%8F%80 |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 8F 80 |
| Shortcode | :basketball: |
How to type 🏀 on your keyboard
- Windows: press Win + . and search for “basketball”.
- Mac: press Control + Command + Space and search for “basketball”.
- iPhone / Android: open the emoji keyboard and search “ball”.
- HTML: write
🏀in your page source. - Anywhere: use the Copy button above, then paste.
Basketball keywords
- ball
- hoop
- sport
Frequently asked questions
What does 🏀 mean?
The 🏀 Basketball emoji belongs to the sports group of the Activities category. You will see it in chats and captions related to ball, hoop and sport. It was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and works on virtually every modern phone and computer. In Slack, Discord and GitHub you can type :basketball: to insert it.
How do I copy and paste the Basketball emoji?
Press the Copy button above (or click the 🏀 emoji) to copy it to your clipboard, then paste it with Ctrl + V on Windows, Cmd + V on Mac, or long-press → Paste on iPhone and Android.
When was 🏀 Basketball added to Unicode?
Basketball was released as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010.
Related Sports emojis
Sources
Name, code point, category and keywords: Unicode® Emoji 17.0 and Unicode CLDR.