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Meaning & usage
What does the Chart Increasing emoji mean?
A line chart going up, for growth, gains and progress.
Upbeat and businesslike. It is also the go-to for joking about things going well.
How to use 📈 naturally
Stocks, sales figures, progress updates and stonks jokes.
Reaction symbols work like visual emphasis: they reinforce a word, rate an idea or replace a short response. Repetition normally increases intensity, but it can also make a message feel more performative.
From standard to slang
The history of 📈
- 2010
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Chart Increasing was first defined as emoji in Emoji 0.6, dated 2010. That label is retrospective: Unicode applied it later to the early mobile core it inherited from the Japanese carriers.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
From the carrier set, a red line climbing across a grid. Its partner 📉 goes down, and the pair became internet shorthand for good and bad news.
- Today
How its use evolved
Stocks, sales figures, progress updates and stonks jokes.
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.
Sales up again this month 📈
Personal best at the gym 📈
Crypto portfolio, somehow 📈
When to use it
Using 📈 clearly
Stocks, sales figures, progress updates and stonks jokes. It lands as graph emoji or stonks emoji 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 chart increasing emoji
What does 📈 mean in a text message?
A line chart going up, for growth, gains and progress. Upbeat and businesslike. It is also the go-to for joking about things going well.
Is 📈 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are graph emoji, stonks emoji, 📈 meaning, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 📈 look different on another device?
U+1F4C8 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 chart increasing 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 chart increasing emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 📈 as emoji in Emoji 0.6, dated 2010. 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+1F4C8 | 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 | \1F4C8 | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F4C8} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%93%88 | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F4C8
- Category
- Symbols & Reactions
- Also known as
- graph emojistonks emoji📈 meaning
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