Beach with Umbrella Emoji
A parasol on sand beside water, standing for a day at the beach rather than the coast itself.
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Meaning & usage
What does the Beach with Umbrella emoji mean?
A parasol on sand beside water, standing for a day at the beach rather than the coast itself.
Relaxed and slightly smug. It is almost always about being away from work, which is why it turns up in out-of-office replies more than in travel planning.
How to use 🏖️ naturally
Holidays, time off and summer plans.
Nature emoji describe weather and places while also carrying emotional associations such as calm, hope, luck or change. They are common in captions because they establish a mood without a long explanation.
From standard to slang
The history of 🏖️
- 2014
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Beach with Umbrella was first defined as emoji in Emoji 0.7, dated 2014. Another retrospective label, covering characters recognised as emoji in 2014.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
A parasol planted in sand next to water. It depicts the setting rather than the activity, which is why it works for time off more than for swimming.
- Today
How its use evolved
Holidays, time off and summer plans.
Dates follow Unicode’s official Emoji Versions chart. Versions before Emoji 1.0 are labelled retrospectively. See the history of emoji.
In conversation
Examples of 🏖️ in messages
These examples show the emoji in complete messages, where the words make its intended tone easier to read.
Two weeks off starting Friday 🏖️
Out of office until the 14th 🏖️
Found a quiet stretch with nobody on it 🏖️
When to use it
Using 🏖️ clearly
Holidays, time off and summer plans. It lands as beach emoji or 🏖️ meaning when the rest of the message supports that reading, and it is the surrounding words that do the deciding — so in a sensitive, professional or cross-cultural conversation, say the thing outright as well.
Common questions
About the beach with umbrella emoji
What does 🏖️ mean in a text message?
A parasol on sand beside water, standing for a day at the beach rather than the coast itself. Relaxed and slightly smug. It is almost always about being away from work, which is why it turns up in out-of-office replies more than in travel planning.
Is 🏖️ always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are beach emoji, 🏖️ meaning, beach umbrella emoji, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 🏖️ look different on another device?
U+1F3D6 U+FE0F identifies the emoji; the picture is a font, drawn separately by Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung. Only the artwork changes, never the character.
How do I copy and paste the beach with umbrella emoji?
Use the copy button at the top of this page. 🏖️ is a character, not an image, so it pastes into messages, captions and filenames as ordinary text.
When was the beach with umbrella emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 🏖️ as emoji in Emoji 0.7, dated 2014. Early emoji version numbers can be retrospective, so this date describes its place in the standardised emoji set rather than the first-ever appearance of the underlying symbol.
For developers
🏖️ in code
Every value below is generated from the character itself, so it stays correct even where a file encoding cannot hold the emoji directly.
| Format | Value | When to use it | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+1F3D6 U+FE0F | The standard reference. Use it to search a character map or a spec. | |
| HTML (hex) | 🏖️ | For HTML and XML. Safe in files that are not saved as UTF-8. | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🏖️ | The same reference in decimal. Both render identically. | |
| CSS | \1F3D6 \FE0F | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F3D6}\u{FE0F} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%8F%96%EF%B8%8F | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
Reference card
Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F3D6 U+FE0F
- Category
- Weather & Nature
- Also known as
- beach emoji🏖️ meaningbeach umbrella emoji
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