House

🏠 is the house emoji, part of Unicode's Travel & Places group, added in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Unicode's keyword list links it with “building”, “country”, “heart”, and “home”.

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Where place-building emoji usually appear

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Location, property, and city posts

Technical details

Source: Unicode Consortium

Unicode name: HOUSE BUILDING
CLDR short name: house
Codepoint: U+1F3E0
Hex: 1F3E0
Emoji version: 0.6
Unicode version: 6.0
First released: 2010
Unicode group: Travel & Places
Unicode subgroup: place-building
Status: Recommended for General Interchange (RGI)

Data verified 2026-10-21 · Unicode Emoji 16.0 · How this data is built

GitHub shortcode

From GitHub's own emoji list (gemoji). Slack, Discord and other apps keep separate lists, so a code may differ there.

:house:

Keywords

Source: Unicode CLDR

building · country · heart · home · house · ranch · settle · simple · suburban · suburbia · where

How it looks

Your device

Rendered from open-licensed emoji sets. Your device shows its own design. Microsoft Fluent Emoji (MIT)

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Microsoft Fluent UI Emoji — original artwork

Download Microsoft's official Fluent rendering of 🏠. SVG files are vector (scales to any size); the 3D PNG is 256×256.

Questions people ask

What does the 🏠 house emoji mean?: 🏠 is the house emoji, part of Unicode's Travel & Places group, added in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Unicode's keyword list links it with “building”, “country”, “heart”, and “home”.
What is the Unicode codepoint for 🏠?: U+1F3E0, named HOUSE BUILDING in the Unicode Standard.
When was the 🏠 house emoji released?: It was added in Emoji 0.6, published in 2010, alongside Unicode 6.0. Phones and computers show it once their system software supports that version; older devices may show an empty box instead.
How do I type 🏠 on my phone or computer?: On iPhone or Android, open the emoji keyboard and search for “house”. On Windows, press Windows key + . (full stop); on a Mac, press Control + Command + Space, then search for the same word. You can also copy 🏠 from this page with one click.
What is the shortcode for 🏠?: On GitHub, type :house: and it turns into 🏠 — that code comes from GitHub's own emoji list. Slack, Discord and other apps keep their own shortcode lists; many codes match GitHub's, but check the app's emoji picker to be sure.