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 Microsoft

Category Travel

Subcategory place-other

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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