🏀 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.

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Basketball Emoji details

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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)

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🌐 Basketball Emoji translations

Language	CLDR Name	Keywords
Deutsch	Basketball	Ball, Korb, Sport
Français	basket	ballon, panier, sport
Русский	баскетбол	баскетбольный, игра, мяч, спорт
Español	balón de baloncesto	balón, canasta, deporte
Italiano	palla da pallacanestro	canestro, canestro da basket, pallone, sport
Português	bola de basquete	bola, cesta, cesta de basquete
Polski	koszykówka	do 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 ;-)

🏀 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.

Press and hold Alt key on keyboard.

Hit the Plus (+) button on numeric keypad.

Type the hexadecimal Unicode value digit-by-digit

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.