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Statue of Liberty Emoji 🗽

Lady Liberty in her spiky crown, torch raised in one hand and a tablet in the other, cast in weathered green copper. It stands for New York City above all, and secondarily for freedom and the ideals the statue was built to represent.

What 🗽 means

A green statue of Libertas, wearing a spiky crown while holding a book in one hand and a burning torch in the other hand which is fully raised. She also seems to be draped in some loose-fitting wardrobe.

Going by the name, the 🗽 Statue of Liberty can signify freedom. But on historic grounds, this emoji represents friendship; at a political level, knowledge, enlightenment (basing on the book and the torch respectively).

How and when to use it

If you and your gang are finally heading out for a good time together, you could bring in this emoji to suggest freedom. For example, "Exams are done and so are we! Let's go out and get wasssted 🗽".
You could also use 🗽 to pop in the concept of 'freedom' and 'liberty' in casual contexts too. Like, "Excuse me? I'm entitled to an opinion, okay? 🗽".
Besides, 🗽 can also be used to evoke the authentic sense of 'New York' or being a 'New Yorker' in any given context.
Bringing in some symbolism; you could use 🗽 as a way of telling someone to educate themselves or that you could do them that favor. For example, "Nice use of language. All style and no substance. Please educate yourself 🗽".
Or "Oh. I'm sorry. I don't understand how that could possibly work. Please do enlighten me 🗽".

Other Names

🗽 New York Statue
🗽 Liberty Enlightening the World
🗽 Lady Liberty
🗽 Libertas
🗽 AKA Roman Liberty Goddess
🗽 The Lady of Liberty

The lowdown

Category: Travel & Places › place-building
Codepoints: U+1F5FD
Emoji version: Emoji 0.6
Shortcodes: :statue_of_liberty:
Keywords: liberty, Liberty, new, ny, nyc, statue, Statue, york

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.