Helicopter Emoji

Travel

A side-profile view of a helicopter, typically depicted in bright yellow or red with a large rotor blade spinning on top and a smaller tail rotor.

Usage Context

Used to discuss aviation, emergency services, or travel. It is a frequent choice for referencing news reporting or aerial surveillance. You might see it used alongside ✈️ or 🚀 when talking about modes of transport, or paired with 🚨 to represent a police or medical rescue operation.

History

Added to the Unicode standard in 2010 as part of Emoji 1.0, this icon reflects the expansion of transportation symbols to include specialized aircraft beyond standard fixed-wing planes. It was designed to bridge the gap between basic travel icons and the specific vehicles used in urban search and rescue.

Details

Glyph

🚁

Unicode

U+1F681

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f681:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDE81;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category Travel

Subcategory transport-air

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.

Apache 2.0 SIL OFL 1.1 Noto Repository