Full spacesuit, helmet and all — the astronaut emoji is space exploration in one figure. It's used for literal astronauts and space content, and loosely for feeling 'out of this world' or completely disconnected from whatever's going on around everyone else.
What 🧑🚀 means
This gender-neutral astronaut is shown from the waist up. This character is designed with a spacesuit and a space helmet. In some platforms, the space helmet is off and is held by the astronaut.
The 🧑🚀 Astronaut emoji refers to any astronaut irrespective of gender and sex. Besides signifying most 6-year-old dreams and ambitions, this emoji suggests space, life in space, physics to a certain extent, and all the traits required to become/be an astronaut.
It is available in the designated skin tones on almost all platforms.
How and when to use it
- If you're suggesting a space movie to someone or posting a movie about space that you're either watching or recommending on your social media story, pop the 🧑🚀 emoji into this context.
- If you love space and everything about it, 🧑🚀 is a great way to indicate that interest. You could use this emoji in your social media profile name or even in your bio.
- If you had the chance to visit NASA or you're the blessed one working at NASA, then hail that moment of pride on social media along with the 🧑🚀 emoji in the post caption.
- You could also use 🧑🚀 in the context of asking or requesting someone for some space (winks).
- 🧑🚀 can also be used as an emoji response to any post that's about space, astronauts, astronautics, outer space, etc.
- You can use 🧑🚀 even in a costume party or a dress-up event context.
Other Names
- 🧑🚀 Gender-Neutral Astronaut
- 🧑🚀 Astronautics
- 🧑🚀 Spaceman
- 🧑🚀 Outer Space
- 🧑🚀 Rocket Man (come on, that's a good one)
- 🧑🚀 Cosmonaut
- 🧑🚀 Moonwalker (controversial, but okay)
- 🧑🚀 Space Person
- 🧑🚀 Space Cadet
- 🧑🚀 NASA Person
- 🧑🚀 Explorer
- 🧑🚀 Space Explorer
- 🧑🚀 Spaceman Costume
- 🧑🚀 Astronomer
The lowdown
- Category
- People & Body › person-role
- Codepoints
U+1F9D1 U+200D U+1F680- Emoji version
- Emoji 12.1
- Shortcodes
:astronaut:Slack · Discord- Keywords
- astronaut, rocket, space
- How it's built
- Several emojis fused by an invisible joiner — a ZWJ sequence.
How it looks across platforms
Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.
Skin tone variations
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🧑🚀 Astronaut or 👨✈️ Man Pilot?
Runs with a crowd
🧑🚀 keeps company in space emojis — tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.