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Ship Emoji 🚢

A large cruise or cargo ship cutting through the water — that's the ship emoji, used for sea travel and cruises. It also covers shipping and logistics more broadly, standing in for anything moving by water rather than air or road.

What 🚢 means

A left-facing ship with a large body painted in dual colors, a line of windows, a two-tiered passenger cabin, and a pair of chimneys on the roof. There's also a wide deck in front, just behind a protective railing.

The 🚢 Ship emoji signifies large scale water transportation. It suggests waterways, cruise ships, casino ships, and other variants of the vessel. On the other hand, this emoji could also have metaphorical suggestions.

How and when to use it

If you're texting someone about a particular conversation, situation or even person who's embedded in the past, use 🚢. For example, "How's my date? Oh, pal. That ship has sailed 🚢".
If you're referring to someone or something that is bound to an impending doom or disaster, you can use 🚢. Like, "He's a sinking ship now and he's hardly aware of it 🚢
Shipping two people could also use 🚢 in a virtual scenario. For instance, "They're so adorable together. They may be exes, but I ship them hard in my head 🚢".
You could also use 🚢 while texting someone or sharing a social media post/story about your dreams and ambitions. For instance, "In due time, my ship will come in and I will be in better emotional health 🚢".
If you're sharing videos of ship cruises, cruise parties as a post, or a repost of the same, you can use 🚢 in the caption.

Other Names

🚢 Sailing Ship
🚢 Vessel
🚢 Watercraft
🚢 Cruise Ship
🚢 Voyage
🚢 Ship Journey
🚢 Gambling Ship
🚢 Boat

The lowdown

Category: Travel & Places › transport-water
Codepoints: U+1F6A2
Emoji version: Emoji 0.6
Shortcodes: :ship:
Keywords: boat, passenger, ship, travel

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.