Passenger ship Emoji

Travel

A large, multi-deck cruise ship shown from the side as it glides across the water. The design typically features rows of windows and a smokestack, clearly marking it as a vessel built for carrying people rather than cargo.

Usage Context

Used to talk about vacations, luxury cruises, or international travel by sea. It often appears in posts about boarding a ship, maritime excursions, or comparing modes of transport like planes or trains. It is frequently grouped with 🚢 for cargo vessels or ✈️ for air travel.

History

Added to the Unicode standard in 2014, this emoji was introduced alongside a wave of transport icons to help users describe long-distance vacation plans. It reflects the global growth of the cruise industry and the shift toward using emojis as a shorthand for travel itineraries.

Details

Glyph

🛳

Unicode

U+1F6F3

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f6f3:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDEF3;

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category Travel

Subcategory transport-water

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Twemoji Attribution

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