Rainbow symbolises hope, happiness and positivity, and is widely used to show LGBTQ+ pride. 🌈 Rainbow is an emoji from the Travel & Places category. Its Unicode code point is U+1F308 and it was released in Unicode 6.0 (2010). Press Copy to paste it anywhere.
What does 🌈 Rainbow mean?
Rainbow symbolises hope, happiness and positivity, and is widely used to show LGBTQ+ pride.
🌈 Rainbow is part of the “Weather” set in the Travel & Places emoji category. You will see it in chats and captions related to gay, genderqueer, glbt, glbtq and lesbian. Rainbow has been available since Unicode 6.0 (2010), so it displays on almost all current devices. In Slack, Discord and GitHub you can type :rainbow: to insert it.
Rainbow emoji codes
| Emoji | 🌈 |
|---|---|
| Unicode | U+1F308 |
| HTML entity (decimal) | 🌈 |
| HTML entity (hex) | 🌈 |
| CSS | \1F308 |
| JavaScript | \u{1F308} |
| Python | \U0001F308 |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%8C%88 |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 8C 88 |
| Shortcode | :rainbow: |
How to type 🌈 on your keyboard
- Windows: press Win + . and search for “rainbow”.
- Mac: press Control + Command + Space and search for “rainbow”.
- iPhone / Android: open the emoji keyboard and search “rain”.
- HTML: write
🌈in your page source. - Anywhere: use the Copy button above, then paste.
Rainbow keywords
- gay
- genderqueer
- glbt
- glbtq
- lesbian
- lgbt
- lgbtq
- lgbtqia
- nature
- pride
- queer
- rain
- trans
- transgender
- weather
Frequently asked questions
What does 🌈 mean?
Rainbow symbolises hope, happiness and positivity, and is widely used to show LGBTQ+ pride.
How do I copy and paste the Rainbow 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 🌈 Rainbow added to Unicode?
Rainbow was released as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010.
Related Weather emojis
Sources
Name, code point, category and keywords: Unicode® Emoji 17.0 and Unicode CLDR.