A blue sphere wrapped in the grid lines of longitude and latitude, no continents drawn in at all. Because it reads as more abstract than the continent-specific globes, it's become the emoji for the internet, a website, or "online" broadly, sitting next to a link in a bio far more often than it stands for an actual planet.
What 🌐 means
A sphere with a light blue outline and latitude, longitude markings of the same color. The 🌐 Globe With Meridians emoji signifies the globe (as the name suggests), but it can also suggest a sense of being global, or international in other words.
How and when to use it
- If you're posting or reposting about something or someone who established or is establishing a global platform for their art or any other professional field, you can use 🌐 in the caption.
- 🌐 does not only signify a global platform for someone or something, but it can also signify inclusivity. For instance, if you're sharing something about a speech, a political aspect, or even a song that involves the entire world, then too, you can use 🌐 in the caption.
- If you're texting your bestie about your passion to go global (in your own levels of going up the ladder), you can use 🌐. For instance, "I want the entire school to know my name! 🌐" or "I really hope the organization recognizes your humble efforts, man 🌐".
- Essentially, 🌐 signifies a sense of bracketing the entirety of something; it can be an institution, a platform, an organization, or even the world.
- You can also use 🌐 while sharing posts about music; global chartbusters, etc.
Other Names
- 🌐 Global
- 🌐 International
- 🌐 Inclusive
- 🌐 The World
- 🌐 Meridian Outline of the Globe
- 🌐 Global Platforms
- 🌐 Globe
- 🌐 The Earth
The lowdown
- Category
- Travel & Places › place-map
- Codepoints
U+1F310- Emoji version
- Emoji 1.0
- Shortcodes
:globe_with_meridians:- Keywords
- earth, globe, internet, meridians, web, world, worldwide
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 — 🌐 Globe with Meridians or 📀 Dvd?
Runs with a crowd
🌐 keeps company in blue emojis and space emojis and travel emojis — tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.