🌌 Meaning – Milky Way Emoji

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This icon depicts a night sky filled with the milky way galaxy stars inside a portrait frame. This emoji could mean star-gazing, astronomy, outer space, our galaxy, and nighttime. Space Emoji could be used to ask someone if they want to go star-gazing, or to indicate that the stars are looking exceptionally beautiful in the sky. This emoji has a strong romantic tone. It has neither a positive or negative connotation.

The Milky Way Emoji appeared in 2010, and now is mainly known as the Space Emoji.

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Space Emoji details

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Uncode codepoint: U+1F30C
Unicode name: Milky Way
Category: Travel & Places / Other Places
Keywords: space, weather, night
Windows Alt-code: Alt+1F30C
Decimal HTML Entity: 🌌
Hex HTML Entity: 🌌
UTF-16 hex: 0xD83C 0xDF0C
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milky_Way
Version: Unicode 6.0
Year: 2010 (see all emoji of 2010)

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🌐 Space Emoji translations

Language	CLDR Name	Keywords
Deutsch	Milchstraße	Galaxie
Français	voie lactée	espace
Русский	Млечный Путь	космос, молоко, путь
Español	Vía Láctea	espacio, galaxia, vía láctea
Italiano	Via Lattea	lattea
Português	via láctea	céu, estrelado
Polski	Droga Mleczna	droga mleczna, gwiazdy, niebo, noc

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How to type Milky Way Emoji

There are number of methods to type Space 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 Milky Way 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.