Castle Emoji

Travel

A stone fortification featuring multiple towers, tall blue-roofed turrets, and a gated entrance. It represents a classic medieval stronghold or a fairy-tale fortress.

Usage Context

Used to talk about historic travel destinations, fantasy storytelling, or the idea of a home being a personal fortress. It is often paired with 👑 to denote royalty or with 🐉 when referencing medieval folklore and epic adventures.

History

Added to the Unicode standard in 2010, the castle was included to provide a visual shorthand for architectural landmarks and European heritage sites as emoji usage began expanding beyond basic expressions.

Details

Glyph

🏰

Unicode

U+1F3F0

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f3f0:

HTML Entity

&#xD83C;&#xDFF0;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category Travel

Subcategory place-building

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0

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