What 🏘️ means
Many: a neighborhood, suburb, or community.
The little cluster is the tell. One roof is a home; three roofs side by side is the street, the village, the neighbors and all.
Artwork looks different by phone: some sets draw two houses, most draw three. That detail does not change the meaning; as of 2025, the two-house version was documented by What Emoji.
Civic and cozy, broader and less personal than 🏠.
For one address, send 🏠 instead.
What it means when someone sends it to you
3 readingsUnder a moving announcement
We moved to a new neighborhood
Next to a rental listing
Available homes in a residential area
After a neighbors story
Our little community and everyone in it
Don't confuse it with
3Worth 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
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 “houses”.
macOS
Control+Command+Spaceopens the character viewer.
iOS / Android
Emoji keyboard → search “houses”.
Chat apps
:house_buildings:the common shortcode; support varies by platform.HTML
🏘️Codes and encoding2 code points
HTML decimal
🏘️
HTML hex
🏘️
CSS content
content: "\1F3D8\FE0F";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%8F%98%EF%B8%8F
1
On screen
2
Code points
3
JS .length
7
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.