House Building 🏠
🏠 (U+1F3E0) is a standard Unicode character that you can copy and paste anywhere text is accepted. This page provides a concise reference with safe tips, internal links, and practical guidance so you can use it reliably across apps and platforms.
What it is and where it’s used: House Building is part of the Symbols family (block: Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs). If you need styled or decorative alternatives, try our Fancy Text tool to generate compatible text that works in most modern interfaces.
History & usage: The House Building emoji depicts the House Building. Use it to talk about home, housing, or construction in messages and interfaces. It can signal real estate topics, a new project, or a completed shelter in a plan or story. In UI or chat, it helps show location, a building status, or a project phase without words. It can accompany updates on renovations, moving plans, or neighborhood changes. Use it thoughtfully to clarify intent and avoid ambiguity in formal content. Remember platforms vary in color and style, so appearance can differ across devices and apps. For accessibility, ensure surrounding text conveys the intended meaning, and provide text alternatives if needed so all users understand the message.
Copy and input: the quickest method is to copy the character here. You can also insert it by its codepoint U+1F3E0 in many development tools or editors. Some operating systems provide a character viewer or input palette that lets you search by name or code and insert the glyph into documents.
Display and fallback: if you see an empty box (tofu) or a placeholder rectangle, the active font might not include this codepoint. Switching to a font with broader Unicode coverage or using a fallback font usually fixes the issue. On the web, ensure the page’s font stack includes a general‑purpose fallback.
Related references: browse the Categories for similar characters. When choosing a symbol, prefer the official codepoint for semantic clarity and better compatibility with search, copy, and accessibility tooling.
See our category page for related symbols.
Technical details
- Codepoint:
U+1F3E0 - General Category:
So - Age:
6.0 - Bidi Class:
ON - Block:
Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs - Script:
Common - UTF-8:
F0 9F 8F A0 - UTF-16:
D83C DFE0 - UTF-32:
0001F3E0 - HTML dec:
🏠 - HTML hex:
🏠 - JS escape:
\u{1F3E0} - Python \N{}:
\N{HOUSE BUILDING} - Python \U:
\U0001F3E0 - URL-encoded:
%F0%9F%8F%A0 - CSS escape:
\1F3E0
How to type / insert
Fast copy: click the Copy button near the top of this page.
By codepoint: in many editors and IDEs, you can insert via the Unicode code U+1F3E0 or a built‑in character picker.
HTML: use the numeric entity 🏠 (hex) or 🏠 (decimal) when an HTML entity is needed.
Compatibility & troubleshooting
Font support: if the symbol does not render, the current font likely lacks this codepoint. Choose a font with broad Unicode coverage or allow a fallback font.
Web pages: ensure your CSS font stack includes a general fallback; avoid relying on images for common symbols to preserve accessibility and copyability.