What 🏚️ means
🏚️ is the derelict house emoji, filed under Travel & Places in the place-building subgroup of the Unicode emoji index.
It was added in Emoji 0.7 (2014) and the underlying characters entered Unicode in version 7.0 (2014).
How it is encoded
🏚️ is a sequence of 2 code points (U+1F3DA U+FE0F), joined so that they render as one glyph. Software that counts characters will report 2, not 1 — the usual source of broken emoji handling.
It is RGI (recommended for general interchange), so every major platform ships artwork for it.
Spooky and run-down, never neutral: it signals decay, not age.
Sent alone about someone's home, it calls the place neglected or eerie, not merely old.
Don't confuse it with
2Combination ideas
2Worth knowing
- 🏚️ is not one character. It is 2 of them glued together, which is why deleting it sometimes takes two presses of backspace and why it breaks character counters.
Questions people ask
1Can I use 🏚️ as a joke about my messy apartment?
Yes. Exaggeration suits it: “my room looks like 🏚️” reads as messy, not condemned.
How to type 🏚️
:derelict_house_building:the common shortcode; support varies by platform.🏚️Codes and encoding2 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.