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House Emoji 🏠

A simple house with a peaked roof and a front door — that's the house emoji. It's used for home in the broadest sense — heading back, staying in, or just the comfort of 'home sweet home' — and shows up constantly in real-estate and moving-day posts.

What 🏠 means

A single house with a triangular roof, a chimney at the side, a large square window painted blue, and a rectangular door with a tiny square at the top. There are also two steps at the door and two bushes on either side of the house.

The 🏠 House emoji represents a place of stay shared by a family, many families (like an apartment), or even a space belonging to a couple of friends. Metaphorically and subjectively, this emoji can also signify a home, a place of love, safety, and togetherness.

How and when to use it

While sharing a special post for that special someone who feels like home, you can use 🏠 in the post caption. It's even better if the two of you also share a house together.
Use 🏠 while indicating that you're at home; in a direct message (DM), an emoji-status for work, or even while sharing social media stories about your lazy Sunday at home, etc.
You can also use 🏠 while posting or reposting pictures of independent houses; as an eyegasm picture, a vacancy post, anything.
Reflecting back onto the first point, 🏠 can also be used to refer to a 'home away from a home'; this context can be used while sharing pictures of accommodation during a vacation that treated you the best, a friend's place, etc.
If you're sending a 'happy new home' text to that friend who invited you to the housewarming ceremony which you couldn't attend, you can use 🏠 in those warm messages too. For example, "Heyyy! I'm so sorry I couldn't make it. But, congratulations on the new house! I'm sure you guys would make a home out of it in no time 🏠 ❤"/

Other Names

🏠 Home
🏠 Independent House
🏠 Single House
🏠 Apartment
🏠 Residence
🏠 Independent Residence
🏠 Homestead
🏠 Accommodation
🏠 Stay
🏠 Place of Stay

The lowdown

Category: Travel & Places › place-building
Codepoints: U+1F3E0
Emoji version: Emoji 0.6
Shortcodes: :house:
Keywords: building, country, heart, home, house, ranch, settle, simple, suburban, suburbia, where

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.