Rocket 🚀

Usage snapshot:

• Used in content written with the Common script; suitable for UI labels and body text.
• Appears in the Unicode block Transport and Map Symbols.

History & usage: The character depicts ROCKET. The name consists of a single LETTER token with no modifiers, signaling a standalone symbol rather than a diacritic or combined form; the general significance is that such tokens supply a simple, discrete glyph that can convey compact meaning or imagery across scripts and typographic systems. In orthography and typography, tokens without qualifiers are treated as basic type elements that occupy dedicated slots in inventories and indexes, useful for reference in grammars, dictionaries, and typographic specimens.

Use in scholarly editions and archival transcription: researchers may annotate mapping guides and catalog entries that list emotion-neutral transport icons, including rockets, for cross‑reference in multilingual dictionaries and grammars. Educational primers and paleographic studies may discuss how emoji symbols like this one function as visual shorthand in modern communication, or how they appeared in typographic revivals and specimen books. In digital collections and mapping contexts, the ROCKET serves as a portable symbol in transport and map symbol inventories and in educational materials that illustrate iconography related to spaceflight or rapid movement.

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