#️⃣
What #️⃣ means
A hashtag (#) in white painted onto a blue button-like square background. The ️⃣ Keycap: # emoji represents the hashtag. Apart from a symbol for phone numbers, it currently signifies social media trends and a fantastic catalyst for social media businesses.
How and when to use it
- Hashtags have become a symbol for 'fitting in' as well as being up-to-date with the world, via social media. So, if you're using such themes in any context, use ️⃣ . Like, "Just keeping up with the trend ️⃣ ".
- Besides, hashtags can also be an icon for 'beginning' or 'starting' a trend. For example, "How about we start our own viral trend? ️⃣ " or "It's super easy to get famous these days ️⃣ ".
- Hashtags are also a recently perceived manner of creating a concise gist of any given post/repost, like #creativecontent, #aboutemojis, etc. If you're conveying the message or the importance of being 'concise', you may use ️⃣ . For instance, "Humans are impatient. We need the story to be the crux and the crux to be a defined word ️⃣ ".
- And lastly, while sharing a phone number in the caption of a public post/repost or a CTA with a contactable number, ️⃣ could begin that number.
Other Names
- ️⃣ Hashtag
- ️⃣ Hashtag Symbol
- ️⃣ Number Sign
- ️⃣ Pound Symbol
- ️⃣ Octothorpe
- ️⃣ Hash Key
- ️⃣ Pound Key
- ️
The lowdown
- Category
- Symbols › keycap
- Codepoints
U+0023 U+FE0F U+20E3- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.6
- Shortcodes
:hash:- Keywords
- keycap
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 — #️⃣ Keycap: # or 🇧🇸 Flag: Bahamas?