🏹

Bow and Arrow Emoji 🏹

A drawn bow mid-shot, doing double duty as Cupid's weapon of choice and the archer symbol for Sagittarius season. Outside mythology it covers "aim high" or "right on target," plus the odd nod to actual archery or hunting.

What 🏹 means

A vintage arrow with a metallic head and a feathery bottom, intertwined within the thick thread of a wooden bow. The 🏹 Bow and Arrow emoji largely signifies the practice and skill of aim. It also suggests archery; both the art/sport and the professional.

How and when to use it

If you're posting or reposting something, the caption of which goes along the lines of 'aiming' or 'aim', use 🏹. Like, "Aiming for better things, this time 🏹 Not with just my mind, but my skill too!" or "Why do we settle for much less than what we can aim for? 🏹".
Similarly, 🏹 would work even for text messages that capture the same essence. For example, "You got to get better at aiming for things that suit your skill, man 🏹" or "Learn to focus, first. Aim will arrive 🏹".
Archery or shooting arrows not only involves aim and focus but good and workable angles too. If you're talking about the "right angle" in any context, use 🏹 - "The right angle is one of the basic shapes 🏹".
Drop 🏹 into captions for posts and reposts about archery. However, this could include modern sport, and content about this weapon of ancient warfare as well.

Other Names

🏹 Archery
🏹 Wooden Bow and Arrow
🏹 Crossbow and Arrow
🏹 Arrow Within Bow
🏹 Vintage Bow and Arrow

The lowdown

Category: Objects › tool
Codepoints: U+1F3F9
Emoji version: Emoji 1.0
Shortcodes: :bow_and_arrow::archery: Discord
Keywords: archer, archery, arrow, bow, Sagittarius, tool, weapon, zodiac

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.