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Meaning & usage
What does the Statue of Liberty emoji mean?
The Statue of Liberty, for New York, America and arrival.
Specific and monumental. It means New York far more often than it means liberty.
How to use 🗽 naturally
Travel posts, New York captions and American references.
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 🗽
- 2010
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Statue of Liberty 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
One of very few real monuments Unicode encodes, drawn green with the torch raised. It came from the carrier sets, where a handful of world landmarks stood in for whole countries.
- Today
How its use evolved
Travel posts, New York captions and American references.
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.
First morning in the city 🗽
Ferry queue was worth it 🗽
Landed, jet lagged, delighted 🗽
When to use it
Using 🗽 clearly
Travel posts, New York captions and American references. It lands as statue emoji or new york 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 statue of liberty emoji
What does 🗽 mean in a text message?
The Statue of Liberty, for New York, America and arrival. Specific and monumental. It means New York far more often than it means liberty.
Is 🗽 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are statue emoji, new york emoji, 🗽 meaning, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 🗽 look different on another device?
U+1F5FD 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 statue of liberty 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 statue of liberty 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+1F5FD | 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 | \1F5FD | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F5FD} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%97%BD | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F5FD
- Category
- Weather & Nature
- Also known as
- statue emojinew york emoji🗽 meaning
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