Cracked walls, a boarded-up door, and a roof that's seen better days give this one away instantly. Haunted-house posts, abandoned-building shots, and anything falling apart lean on this one, literally or not.
What 🏚️ means
A typical pucca house with a triangular roof, three square windows (or two), and a rectangular door, but dilapidated. The walls seem to be in ruins while there's an old short yellow fence standing round the house.
The 🏚️ Derelict House emoji represents an abandoned house, which more often than not evokes an eerie sense. Hence, this emoji can be used to signify a haunted building, a dilapidated house, or even an old, deserted residence.
How and when to use it
- While sharing haunted house posts, 🏚️ is a mandatory emoji to have in the caption.
- If you're having a conversation about a haunting, an old house, or just a haunted place which is not exactly a house, you can use 🏚️. For instance, "Dude, that house down the lane is so scary. Its FULL of people, sheesh 🏚️".
- 🏚️ can also be a great fit in 'Halloween'; while sharing pictures and/or videos for Halloween on your social media handle or even while copy-pasting the links of a couple of must-watch videos for Halloween, you can use this emoji in all contexts.
- Apart from a scary framework, 🏚️ can be used just to refer to an old building; which is a house, a restaurant, a church, etc. However, this emoji cannot be used to represent heritage buildings and other ancient edifices that are functional. This only states the dilapidated.
Other Names
- 🏚️ Old House
- 🏚️ Abandoned House
- 🏚️ Haunted House
- 🏚️ Dilapidated House
- 🏚️ Ancient House
- 🏚️ Ancestral House
- 🏚️ House in Ruins
The lowdown
- Category
- Travel & Places › place-building
- Codepoints
U+1F3DA U+FE0F- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.7
- Shortcodes
:derelict_house:GitHub- Keywords
- derelict, home, house
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 — 🏚️ Derelict House or 🧜♂️ Merman?