Cityscape at dusk Emoji

Travel

A silhouette of a city skyline set against a gradient of orange, purple, and blue hues. The depiction shows multiple tall buildings under a twilight sky, capturing the transition from day to night in an urban environment.

Usage Context

Frequently used to signal the end of a workday, announce evening plans, or describe a night out in a big city. It pairs well with other nightlife imagery like 🌃 or 🌆 to set the mood for nocturnal activities.

History

Introduced in Unicode 6.0 in 2010 as part of the early wave of graphical landscape emojis, it was designed to help users quickly communicate location and time without needing to type out a full sentence. It gained popularity as mobile cameras improved and social media users began sharing 'golden hour' photography.

Details

Glyph

🌆

Unicode

U+1F306

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f306:

HTML Entity

&#xD83C;&#xDF06;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category Travel

Subcategory place-other

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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