Its dusk and night cousins get sunset glow and scattered stars; the cityscape emoji stays neutral, skyscrapers under a plain midday sky. It's used for city life, business districts, and travel posts about visiting somewhere urban, rather than about any particular time of day.
What 🏙️ means
The picture is square, showing a couple of buildings in varying shades of blue and different heights, each with a few visible windows, set against a blue sky.
The 🏙️ Cityscape emoji represents a city's skyline along with a general overview of the urban landscape. It signifies the city, as the name suggests, and with that comes many other concepts and ideas of living in the city and being of the city.
How and when to use it
- If you're texting someone about heading to the city, or you're texting them about the city lifestyle, and other such conversations, you can use 🏙️ in all of them. It can be your first time in a city or your first time in a new city, anything works.
- If you're from a city, you can use 🏙️ in your social media profile name.
- You can use 🏙️ while posting or reposting pictures shot in the background of skyscrapers too. This applies even to paintings of cityscapes or videos of/around these tall edifices.
- If your post caption has the word 'city' in it, then too, 🏙️ can have its own guest entrance in the context. For example, "Take me down to the paradise city, where the beer is cheap and the guys are pretty 🏙️".
Other Names
- 🏙️ City Skyline
- 🏙️ Urban Landscape
- 🏙️ City Life
- 🏙️ Skyscrapers
- 🏙️ Metropolis
- 🏙️ Metropolitan City
- 🏙️ Buildings
- 🏙️ Really Tall Buildings
The lowdown
- Category
- Travel & Places › place-other
- Codepoints
U+1F3D9 U+FE0F- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.7
- Shortcodes
:cityscape:GitHub- Keywords
- city, cityscape
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 — 🏙️ Cityscape or ✈️ Airplane?