Bridge at night Emoji

Travel

A dark blue bridge spanning across a calm, reflective body of water under a starry night sky. The structure is illuminated with small, glowing lights that track across the span, suggesting a major piece of urban infrastructure.

Usage Context

Frequently used to represent late-night travel, city nightlife, or commutes home after dark. It is a popular shorthand for San Francisco or the Golden Gate Bridge specifically, often appearing alongside 🌃 or 🌉 when discussing city views or evening strolls.

History

Added in Unicode 6.0 in 2010, this emoji was part of a wave of landscape-based icons designed to help users share their real-time location or mood during night shifts and nocturnal outings. Its visual design is widely recognized as a tribute to the iconic suspension bridges found in coastal metropolitan hubs.

Details

Glyph

🌉

Unicode

U+1F309

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f309:

HTML Entity

&#xD83C;&#xDF09;

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category Travel

Subcategory place-other

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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