A handful of bars climbing to different heights, shorthand for stats, data, and anything that can be measured and compared. Reports, sales figures, and fitness progress all get tagged with it, and it's dropped in just as often for the numbers in general, growth, rankings, performance, with no actual chart anywhere nearby.
What 📊 means
A vertically rectangular graph paper with three vertical bar graphs of varying heights and differing colors; generally green, red, and blue. Sometimes, there may even be four bars with an additional color.
The 📊 Bar Chart emoji suggests a variation among the graph or chart emojis. This emoji, unlike 📈 Chart Increasing and 📉 Chart Decreasing measures attributes with solid bars instead of lines. It signifies comparison at large, among different categories.
How and when to use it
- While weighing out your options in a textual conversation or even while asking someone to do so, you can use 📊. For example, "Yea. Going dancing is better than going drinking. But, I want to drink. But, also I'm broke. So let's dance 📊".
- You may use 📊 in the context of music too; billboard chart posts, your Spotify wrap, or even a direct message of your fav-song compilation. Like, "The first 10 tracks are my fav. It varies after that 📊".
- 📊 could suggest fluctuation or variation too. Essentially, something that's not constant. So, if you're pointing out something like that, bring in this emoji.
- Examples for the previous point: "Her name on the charts was off and on, man 📊" or "2020 had my emotional stability like 📊".
Other Names
- 📊 Bar Graph
- 📊 Bar Graph Chart
- 📊 Vertical Bar Graph
- 📊 Horizontal Bar Chart (could be used as well)
- 📊 Varying Bars on a Graph Chart
- 📊 Graph Paper With Bars
The lowdown
- Category
- Objects › office
- Codepoints
U+1F4CA- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.6
- Shortcodes
:bar_chart:- Keywords
- bar, chart, data, graph
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.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 📊 Bar Chart or 🪺 Nest with Eggs?