Classical building Emoji

Travel

A stone-colored building featuring a triangular pediment supported by four tall columns. It is modeled after the iconic architecture of ancient Greek temples or Roman government halls.

Usage Context

Used to denote historical sites, legal institutions, museums, or academic universities. It is frequently sent when discussing history, civics, or travel plans to major capital cities. You might see it used alongside 📜 to discuss ancient laws or 🏛️ for general architecture talk.

History

Added in Unicode 7.0 in 2014, this character was introduced to bridge the gap between simple urban landscape emojis and the specific need for representing national monuments and democratic institutions in digital conversation.

Details

Glyph

🏛

Unicode

U+1F3DB

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f3db:

HTML Entity

&#xD83C;&#xDFDB;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category Travel

Subcategory place-building

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License Apache-2.0 / OFL-1.1

Google Noto License

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