Desert Emoji

Travel

A desolate, sun-drenched landscape featuring rolling sand dunes and a lone, jagged rock formation under a clear sky. It captures the dry, expansive heat of an arid environment.

Usage Context

Used to describe sweltering weather, remote travel destinations, or the feeling of being thirsty and parched. It frequently appears alongside the ☀️ sun or 🌵 cactus emoji to emphasize extreme heat or a lack of water.

History

Added to the Unicode standard in 2014, this emoji was introduced to flesh out the growing list of geographic landscapes, allowing users to move beyond generic cityscapes to describe more specific, harsh natural environments.

Details

Glyph

🏜

Unicode

U+1F3DC

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f3dc:

HTML Entity

&#xD83C;&#xDFDC;

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category Travel

Subcategory place-geographic

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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