Copy and paste the Basketball emoji (🏀) in one click. View its Activities & Sports meaning, Emoji 0.6 / Unicode 6.0 (2010) sequence (U+1F3C0), and cross-platform appearance.
Unicode Definition: Illustrates basketball (🏀). Standardized in Emoji 0.6 / Unicode 6.0 (2010) (U+1F3C0).
Context & Expression: Highlights human action, career identity, athletic dedication, hobby passion, or imaginative roleplay in everyday digital storytelling.
Usage Note: Basketball (🏀) is popular in profile bios, workout trackers, and team status updates to represent active routines or roles.
Widely used on LinkedIn, Instagram bios, Strava/fitness check-ins, and group chats to represent one's profession, workout routine, weekend sport, or "main character energy" (🏀).
Combine 🏀 with complementary symbols or text labels to make social captions, Slack statuses, and threads immediately scannable.
See how the Basketball emoji looks in everyday mobile messaging.
What are you up to this afternoon? Still down to hang out later?
Finishing up my session right now 🏀 give me 45 minutes and I'm all yours!
Bet, text me when you're wrapping up!
Apple iOS renders detailed 3D apparel and equipment; Google Android uses vibrant, readable flat-vector colors; Microsoft Windows uses shaded Fluent character models.
High-detail 3D vector/bitmap artwork with specular lighting
System Font: 'Apple Color Emoji'| Platform / Vendor | Glyph Preview | System Emoji Font | Rendering Behavior |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apple iOS / macOS | 🏀 | Apple Color Emoji | High-detail 3D vector/bitmap artwork with specular lighting |
| Google Android | 🏀 | Noto Color Emoji | Clean, rounded Noto Color Emoji vector geometry |
| Samsung One UI | 🏀 | Samsung Color Emoji | Vibrant high-contrast One UI color styling |
| Microsoft Windows | 🏀 | Segoe UI Emoji | Fluent Design 3D shading (renders 2-letter ISO codes for country flags) |
| X / Discord (Twemoji) | 🏀 | Twitter Color Emoji | Flat minimalist Twemoji SVG iconography |
Verified Unicode code points, HTML entities, CSS/JS escapes, UTF-8 bytes, and version data.
| Character | 🏀 |
|---|---|
| Official Unicode Name | Basketball |
| Unicode Code Point | U+1F3C0 |
| HTML Decimal Entity | 🏀 |
| HTML Hex Entity | 🏀 |
| CSS Escape Code | \01F3C0 |
| JavaScript / ES6 Escape | \u{1F3C0} |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 8F 80 |
| Shortcode (Slack / Discord / GitHub) | :basketball: |
| Emoji / Unicode Version | Emoji 0.6 / Unicode 6.0 (2010) |
| Category & Subgroup | Activities & Sports (ball) |
Quick answers about meaning, OS rendering, and developer escape codes.
Highlights human action, career identity, athletic dedication, hobby passion, or imaginative roleplay in everyday digital storytelling. It belongs to the Activities & Sports category and was standardized in Emoji 0.6 / Unicode 6.0 (2010).
Widely used on LinkedIn, Instagram bios, Strava/fitness check-ins, and group chats to represent one's profession, workout routine, weekend sport, or "main character energy" (🏀).
Click the "Copy Emoji (🏀)" button at the top of this page to copy the character to your clipboard, then press Ctrl+V (Windows/Linux), Cmd+V (macOS), or long-press Paste (iOS/Android) in any app.
The Unicode code point is U+1F3C0 (Emoji 0.6 / Unicode 6.0 (2010)). In HTML use 🏀 or 🏀; in CSS pseudo-elements use content: "\01F3C0"; in JavaScript use "\u{1F3C0}"; and in Slack/Discord/GitHub use shortcode :basketball:.
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