Anchor Emoji

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Anchor Emoji

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Anchor emoji 17

Anchor symbols 4

Anchor emoticons 4

Anchor drawings 2

Anchor sayings 7

Anchor lines 5

Anchor combos 10

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How it works

The anchor emoji is ⚓, U+2693, from Emoji 0.6. Unicode lists it with water transport, between Lighthouse and Ring buoy, and its own note on the character reads nautical term, harbor (on maps).

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Emoji or plain symbol

U+2693 has been in Unicode since version 4.1, and Unicode lists two styles for it, emoji and text. Anchor, text style adds the selector that asks for a plain symbol, which suits a name or a line of text. Some apps draw the emoji anyway.

Filed with a trident

CLDR, Unicode’s list of search words, files two emoji under anchor: Anchor and Trident emblem. The same two, with Ship and Passenger ship, are the four under ship. Anchor is also filed under tool, beside the hammer and the wrench.

  • By Wiktionary the call is anchor’s aweigh, not away: aweigh means lifted off the sea bed.
  • To weigh anchor is to raise it. Wiktionary notes the phrase is sometimes used wrongly for dropping it.

Questions and answers

What does the ⚓ emoji mean?

Staying put, on a boat or off one. Wiktionary defines an anchor as a tool that moors a vessel to a sea or river bottom, and gives the word a figurative sense too: that which gives stability or security.

Is there an anchor symbol Alt code?

Not among the old ones: code page 437 has no anchor. By Wikipedia, WordPad and similar apps take the decimal number, Alt+9875 on the number pad, and Notepad or Word turn 2693 into ⚓ when Alt+X follows it.

Is there an anchor text emoticon?

This page has its own, typed with plain keys: o-+--) is an anchor on its side, ring first, and two drawings stand it upright.

All 49 items

Anchor emoji 17

  • Anchor U+2693. One of two emoji CLDR files under anchor. Also filed under ship and tool. Emoji 0.6.
  • Canoe U+1F6F6. Filed under boat. Emoji 3.0.
  • Chains U+26D3 U+FE0F. Filed under chain. Emoji 0.7.
  • Compass U+1F9ED. Filed under navigation. Emoji 11.0.
  • Desert island U+1F3DD U+FE0F. Filed under island. Emoji 0.7.
  • Ferry U+26F4 U+FE0F. Filed under boat. Emoji 0.7.
  • Hook U+1FA9D. Filed under hook. Emoji 13.0.
  • Knot U+1FAA2. Filed under rope and knot. Emoji 13.0.
  • Motor boat U+1F6E5 U+FE0F. Filed under boat. Emoji 0.7.
  • Passenger ship U+1F6F3 U+FE0F. Filed under ship and passenger. Emoji 0.7.
  • Ring buoy U+1F6DF. The emoji after Anchor in Unicode’s list. Emoji 14.0.
  • Sailboat U+26F5. Filed under boat, sea and yacht. Emoji 0.6.
  • Ship U+1F6A2. Filed under ship and boat. Emoji 0.6.
  • Speedboat U+1F6A4. Filed under boat. Emoji 0.6.
  • Trident emblem U+1F531. The other emoji CLDR files under anchor. Also filed under ship and trident. Emoji 0.6.
  • Water wave U+1F30A. Filed under ocean and wave. Emoji 0.6.
  • World map U+1F5FA U+FE0F. Filed under map. Emoji 0.7.
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Anchor symbols 4

  • Anchor, text style U+2693. The same character with the text selector, U+FE0E, which asks for a plain symbol.
  • Helm symbol U+2388. Unicode names it Helm symbol and notes it as control.
  • Neptune, a trident U+2646. Unicode names it Neptune.
  • Sailboat, text style U+26F5. Unicode notes it as marina or yacht harbour.

Anchor emoticons 4

  • (--+-o The same anchor, pointing the other way. Plain ASCII
  • =====o-+--) An anchor on its rope. Plain ASCII
  • o-+--) An anchor on its side: ring, stock, shank and arms. Plain ASCII
  • ~~~ o-+--) ~~~ An anchor between two waves. Plain ASCII

Anchor drawings 2

  • Anchor, drawn Seven lines of ASCII
  • Small anchor, drawn Four lines of ASCII

Anchor sayings 7

  • The anchor of a relay By Wiktionary an anchor is also a relay race's last runner. Person running, then anchor.
  • Anchor’s aweigh By Wiktionary: the reply when the anchor has left the bottom. Anchor, then up arrow, then sailboat.
  • At anchor By Wiktionary: anchored. Sailboat, then anchor.
  • Drop anchor By Wiktionary: to release the anchor so it falls to the bottom; also to stop travelling and settle down. Anchor, then down arrow.
  • My anchor By Wiktionary, figuratively: a source of security or stability. Anchor, then red heart.
  • News anchor By Wiktionary an anchor is also an anchorman or anchorwoman on television. Television, then anchor.
  • Weigh anchor By Wiktionary: to raise the anchor before getting under way. Anchor, then up arrow.

Anchor lines 5

  • Anchor’s aweigh ⚓ For the moment of leaving
  • Dropping anchor here ⚓ For a place worth staying
  • Harbor bound ⚓ On the way back
  • Stay anchored ⚓ A short sign-off
  • You are my anchor ⚓ For the steady one

Anchor combos 10

  • Anchor chain Anchor, then chains.
  • Anchored for the night Anchor, then crescent moon.
  • Back in port Anchor, then house.
  • Chart the course World map, then compass, then anchor.
  • Cruise countdown Passenger ship, then anchor, then alarm clock.
  • Fishing at anchor Anchor, then fishing pole, then fish.
  • Island stop Anchor, then desert island.
  • Lake weekend Canoe, then anchor, then sun.
  • Sailor’s knot Anchor, then knot.
  • Storm, holding fast Water wave, then anchor, then water wave.

How this list was compiled: Built on 2026-10-08 from sources read that day. The emoji, their names, code points and Emoji version numbers are from the Unicode emoji list, version 18.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/emoji/emoji-test.txt); names are the CLDR short names printed in that file. Search words are from the CLDR English annotations (https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotations/en.xml and https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotationsDerived/en.xml). Anchor is U+2693, Emoji 0.6, in the group Travel & Places, subgroup transport-water: Lighthouse is printed before it and Ring buoy after it. CLDR gives it three search words (anchor, ship, tool), files two emoji under anchor (Anchor and Trident emblem) and four under ship (those two, Passenger ship and Ship). Character names are from UnicodeData.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt); only one other character there is named for an anchor, Interlinear annotation anchor, a format character. Unicode’s notes on the characters (Anchor: nautical term, harbor (on maps); Helm symbol: control; Sailboat: marina or yacht harbour) are from NamesList.txt (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/NamesList.txt); U+2693 dates from Unicode 4.1 by DerivedAge.txt (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/DerivedAge.txt) and has both an emoji and a text style row in https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/emoji/emoji-variation-sequences.txt. That WordPad and other RichEdit apps turn Alt and a decimal number from 256 to 65,535 into the Unicode character is from Wikipedia, Alt code (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt_code, CC BY-SA 4.0); 9875 is 2693 in decimal. That Alt+X turns the hexadecimal number before the cursor into its character in Notepad, Office and WordPad is from Wikipedia, Unicode input (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_input); code page 437, which the old Alt codes follow, has no anchor (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_437). The sayings are as Wiktionary defines them (CC BY-SA 4.0): aweigh (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/aweigh), anchor’s aweigh (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/anchor%27s_aweigh), weigh anchor (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/weigh_anchor), drop anchor (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/drop_anchor), at anchor (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/at_anchor) and the relay, television and figurative senses of anchor (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/anchor). The parts of an anchor named in a typed tile (ring, stock, shank, arms) are among those listed in Wikipedia, Anchor (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchor). The four typed anchors, the two drawings, the five lines and the ten combos are this site’s own work. Licence: own work: the selection, the combo names, the text drawings and the notes are this site's own. Emoji names, code points and search words are Unicode and CLDR data, used under the Unicode License v3 (https://www.unicode.org/license.txt). Facts from Wikipedia and Wiktionary are restated in this site's own words and credited in the source line.

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