Cityscape Emoji

Travel

A silhouette of a dense metropolitan area showing multiple high-rise buildings and skyscrapers against a clear sky. The design captures the dense skyline typical of a modern urban center.

Usage Context

Used to talk about big city life, traveling to a new metropolis, or discussing urban planning. It is frequently sent alongside 🌃 when referencing nightlife or 🏢 to specify office hubs or commercial districts.

History

Added to the Unicode standard in 2014 as part of Emoji 7.0, this icon was released alongside a wave of geographic and architectural symbols intended to help users quickly identify locations and transit destinations in mobile messaging apps.

Details

Glyph

🏙

Unicode

U+1F3D9

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f3d9:

HTML Entity

&#xD83C;&#xDFD9;

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

Noto Color Emoji graphics are copyrighted by Google Inc. and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Font files may also be subject to the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.

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