🏀 Meaning – Basketball Emoji

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This is a simple sport-theme emoji and it represents a basketball and hoop. It’s meaning is clearly related to sports and it is typically used to refer both to the elements you need to play (ball, hoop etc.) or to the game itself. Since it has just one meaning, Basketball Emoji can easily replace the whole concept of playing basketball.

The Basketball Emoji appeared in 2010, and also known as the Basketball Symbol.

Basketball Emoji, Apple style
Apple
Basketball Emoji, Microsoft style
Microsoft
Basketball Emoji, Samsung style
Samsung
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Browser / Native
Basketball Emoji, Emoji One style
Emoji One
Basketball Emoji, Facebook style
Facebook Messenger
Basketball Emoji, LG style
LG
n/a
ASCII Emoticon

Basketball Emoji details

Symbol to copy
Uncode codepoint
U+1F3C0
Unicode name
Basketball
Category
Activities / Sports
Keywords
ball, sport
Windows Alt-code
Alt+1F3C0
Decimal HTML Entity
🏀
Hex HTML Entity
🏀
UTF-16 hex
0xD83C 0xDFC0
Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basketball
Version
Unicode 6.0
Year
2010 (see all emoji of 2010)

🌐 Basketball Emoji translations

LanguageCLDR NameKeywords
DeutschBasketballBall, Korb, Sport
Françaisbasketballon, panier, sport
Русскийбаскетболбаскетбольный, игра, мяч, спорт
Españolbalón de baloncestobalón, canasta, deporte
Italianopalla da pallacanestrocanestro, canestro da basket, pallone, sport
Portuguêsbola de basquetebola, cesta, cesta de basquete
Polskikoszykówkado kosza, piłka

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How to type Basketball Emoji

There are number of methods to type Basketball Emoji. Easiest way is to copy & paste, but other methods, like windows alt-codes and HTML-entities (for web sites) are also popular enough.

You may use this Copy and Paste Emoji List to copy/type emoji one-by-one or this Online Emoji Keyboard to write all your message at one time and copy it when finished.

Copy and paste 🏀 emoji

It's very easy to get Basketball Emoji both on computer and mobile without any emoji keyboard installed. All you need is to select, copy and paste this symbol: . Select this like a regular text, and copy to the clipboard. After doing that, switch to another website or application and paste emoji using context menu or keyboard. Hint: use Ctrl/Cmd+C keys to copy, and Ctrl/Cmd+V to paste emoji.

Even if emoji symbol or smiley looks like a black square or question mark, it most probably will be converted into appropriate image by web site or application where you paste it.

To avoid misunderstandings, first carefully read 🏀 meaning and look at 🏀 pictures before sending it to somebody: some emoji don't mean what you think they mean ;-)

Basketball Emoji HTML-entities

HTML entites are intended for using on websites. You can put Basketball Emoji html entity code in decimal or hexadecimal form right in your message, and it will be translated into graphical representation of Basketball Emoji after you submit.

🏀 emoji Alt-codes for Windows

It's easy to type emoji or any other Unicode character with code value up to U+0ffff by it's alt-code in MS Windows. Here are instructions.

  1. Press and hold Alt key on keyboard.
  2. Hit the Plus (+) button on numeric keypad.
  3. Type the hexadecimal Unicode value digit-by-digit
  4. Now release the Alt key and you'll see your character.

Note 1. This method works only for unicode codepoints U+0ffff and bellow.

Note 2. If this trick does not work, you should check some settings in your Windows Registry. If you don't know what the Registry is, please don't try this! Run regedit.exe and navigate to the HKEY_Current_User/Control Panel/Input Method branch. Add EnableHexNumpad key with type of REG_SZ and set it to "1". You may need to log off and back on to enable this input type.

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