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House Emoji 🏠

A simple house with a peaked roof and a front door, the house emoji covers home in the broadest sense. That's heading back, staying in, or just 'home sweet home,' and it 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

🏠 in real conversations

What's the message behind a bare 🏠 with no caption attached?

"I'm home" or "staying in tonight" — about the simplest status update there is, doing the job people once did by typing "home now" and leaving it. It covers arriving somewhere and choosing to stay put equally well, and nobody usually asks which one was meant.

Does 🏠 only mean a detached house, or does it cover apartments too?

It stretches to cover home in the broadest sense — an apartment, a dorm, a childhood house, wherever someone considers their base. The rooftop-and-door image is literally a single house, but almost nobody uses it that literally; it stands for "home" more than for one specific kind of building.

Why do real-estate posts still lean on 🏠 instead of an actual photo emoji?

Because it says "property" instantly without implying anything about size, style, or location the way a photo caption would. A single house icon works for a studio listing and a five-bedroom one equally well, which is exactly the kind of generic shorthand a listing caption actually needs.

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.