What 🌉 means
🌉 is the bridge at night emoji, filed under Travel & Places in the place-other subgroup of the Unicode emoji index.
It was added in Emoji 0.6 (2010) and the underlying characters entered Unicode in version 6.0 (2010).
How it is encoded
🌉 is a single code point, U+1F309.
It is RGI (recommended for general interchange), so every major platform ships artwork for it.
Don't confuse it with
2Worth knowing
- 🌉 is a single code point, so it survives copying through almost anything — old databases, SMS gateways, printer drivers.
Questions people ask
1Why does 🌉 look different on other phones?
Every platform draws its own artwork for the same code point. The character you send is identical; Apple, Google, Samsung and WhatsApp each render it in their own style.
How to type 🌉
Windows
Win+.Open the emoji picker and search “bridge at night”.
macOS
Control+Command+Spaceopens the character viewer.
iOS / Android
Emoji keyboard → search “bridge at night”.
Chat apps
:bridge_at_night:the common shortcode; support varies by platform.HTML
🌉Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🌉
HTML hex
🌉
CSS content
content: "\1F309";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%8C%89
1
On screen
1
Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.