Castle Emoji

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Castle Emoji

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Castle emoji 8

Castle story 15

Castle in text 16

Castle drawings 2

Castle parts 16

Castle lines 8

Castle combos 16

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How it works

The castle emoji is 🏰, U+1F3F0, from Emoji 0.6. Unicode’s own name for the character is European castle, and CLDR, its list of search words, files two emoji under castle: this one and 🏯.

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A castle symbol in plain text

Unicode has one castle that is not an emoji: ⛫, U+26EB, a map symbol taken from ARIB STD B24, by Wikipedia a character set for Japanese broadcasting. Where it shows as a box, a chess rook stands in: Wiktionary’s rook is a piece shaped like a castle tower, and castle is an informal name for it.

European, Japanese and tower

European is a search word of two emoji, the castle and 🏤 Post office. Tower leads to 🗼 Tokyo tower alone, palace to 💂 Guard and its two variants, and knights to 🐉 Dragon and ⚜️ Fleur-de-lis. 城 is the Han character Unihan defines as castle; by Wikipedia it is read shiro when it stands alone.

  • By Wiktionary castle comes from Latin castellum, a small camp or fort.
  • German Schloss and Polish zamek each mean both castle and lock, by Wiktionary.

Questions and answers

Is there a castle emoticon?

No castle is in Wikipedia’s list of emoticons. Typed here, █▄█▄█▄█ is a run of battlements, []_[]_[]_[] is the same wall in plain keys, and ♜▄▄▄♜ puts a tower at each end.

What is the Japanese castle emoji?

🏯 Japanese castle, U+1F3EF, also from Emoji 0.6: the entry just before 🏰 in Unicode’s list. By Wikipedia Japanese castles are fortresses built primarily of wood and stone.

What does the castle emoji mean?

A castle: by Wiktionary a big fortified building or compound to live in, in earlier ages often home to a king or nobleman. Unicode files 🏰 with the buildings of Travel & Places, and 💒 Wedding comes straight after it.

All 81 items

Castle emoji 8

  • Brick U+1F9F1. Filed under brick, bricks, mortar and wall. Emoji 11.0.
  • Castle U+1F3F0. Unicode’s character name is European castle. Filed under castle, European and building. Emoji 0.6.
  • Door U+1F6AA. Filed under door, front and back. Emoji 0.6.
  • Japanese castle U+1F3EF. The emoji before Castle in Unicode’s list. Filed under castle, Japanese and building. Emoji 0.6.
  • Post office U+1F3E4. The only other emoji filed under European. Also filed under building and post. Emoji 1.0.
  • Rock U+1FAA8. Filed under rock, stone, boulder and solid. Emoji 13.0.
  • Tokyo tower U+1F5FC. The only emoji filed under tower. Also filed under Tokyo. Emoji 0.6.
  • Triangular flag U+1F6A9. Filed under flag, triangular and post. Emoji 0.6.
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Castle story 15

  • Chess pawn U+265F U+FE0F. Filed under chess and pawn. Emoji 11.0.
  • Crown U+1F451. Filed under crown, king, queen, royal and medieval. Emoji 0.6.
  • Dragon U+1F409. One of two emoji filed under knights. Also filed under dragon, fairytale and tale. Emoji 1.0.
  • Fairy U+1F9DA. Filed under fairy, fairytale, fantasy, pixie and wings. Emoji 5.0.
  • Fleur-de-lis U+269C U+FE0F. The other emoji filed under knights. Also filed under fleur-de-lis. Emoji 1.0.
  • Ghost U+1F47B. Filed under ghost, creature, fairytale and tale. Emoji 0.6.
  • Guard U+1F482. Palace is a search word of the guards alone. Filed under guard and palace. Emoji 0.6.
  • Horse U+1F40E. Filed under horse and equestrian. Emoji 0.6.
  • Mage U+1F9D9. Filed under mage, wizard, sorcerer, magic and spell. Emoji 5.0.
  • Old key U+1F5DD U+FE0F. Filed under key, lock, old and clue. Emoji 0.7.
  • Person with crown U+1FAC5. Filed under crown, monarch, noble, regal and royal. Emoji 14.0.
  • Prince U+1F934. Filed under prince, king, royal, fairytale and tale. Emoji 3.0.
  • Princess U+1F478. Filed under princess, queen, royal, fairytale and tale. Emoji 0.6.
  • Shield U+1F6E1 U+FE0F. Filed under shield. Emoji 0.7.
  • Unicorn U+1F984. Filed under unicorn and face. Emoji 1.0.

Castle in text 16

  • []_[]_[]_[] The same wall in plain keys. Plain ASCII
  • █▄█▄█▄█ Battlements: full blocks and lower half blocks, U+2588 and U+2584
  • ♜▄▄▄♜ Two towers and the wall between them: black chess rooks and lower half blocks
  • Black chess rook U+265C. The same piece, filled in.
  • Burg German for a castle or fortification, by Wiktionary
  • castello Italian for castle, by Wiktionary
  • castillo Spanish for castle, by Wiktionary
  • Castle, Han character U+57CE. Unihan defines it as castle; city, town; municipality. Read shiro in Japanese when it stands alone, by Wikipedia.
  • Castle, the map symbol U+26EB. Unicode’s other castle, among the map symbols from ARIB STD B24. Not an emoji: some devices show an empty box.
  • Castling U+2654 U+2656. By Wiktionary the chess move where the king goes two squares toward a rook and the rook jumps to the king's other side.
  • château French for castle, by Wiktionary
  • Fort, Han character U+5821. Unihan defines it as fort, fortress; town, village.
  • kasteel Dutch for a castle, either palatial or fortified, by Wiktionary
  • Schloss German for a castle that is a palace and not fortified, by Wiktionary
  • White chess rook U+2656. By Wiktionary a rook is a castle-tower-shaped piece.
  • zamek Polish for castle, by Wiktionary

Castle drawings 2

  • Castle wall, drawn Six lines of ASCII
  • Tower with a flag, drawn Seven lines of ASCII

Castle parts 16

  • Arrowslit 🏰 By Wiktionary: a slit for firing arrows through, as in a castle wall
  • Bailey 🏰 By Wiktionary: the space just inside a castle's or fortress's outer wall
  • Barbican 🏰 By Wiktionary: a tower at the way into a fortified town or castle
  • Castles in the air ☁️ By Wiktionary: to build them is to have a plan, idea or desire that will probably never come true
  • Crenel 🏰 By Wiktionary: the gap between merlons of a crenelated battlement
  • Curtain wall 🧱 By Wiktionary: a castle's outer wall
  • Drawbridge 🏰 By Wiktionary: a hinged bridge that lifts, as across a moat
  • Dungeon 🗝️ By Wiktionary: a prison or vault below ground, usually under a castle
  • Gatehouse 🚪 By Wiktionary: a fortified room above a castle's entrance or a city wall's gate
  • Great hall 🏰 By Wiktionary: in the Middle Ages, the chief room of a palace, castle or big manor house
  • Keep 🏰 By Wiktionary: a castle's or fortress's main tower, inside the castle walls
  • Moat 🌊 By Wiktionary: a wide, deep ditch for defence, usually full of water, round a fortified habitation
  • Motte ⛰️ By Wiktionary: an earth mound, often ditched round and topped by a wooden or stone structure
  • Portcullis 🏰 By Wiktionary: a grating that serves as a gate, lowered into place in a castle's gateway
  • Sandcastle 🏖️ By Wiktionary: a sand sculpture that looks like a miniature castle
  • Turret 🏰 By Wiktionary: a small tower, often only an ornament, at a corner of a castle or building

Castle lines 8

  • 🏰 Castle project due ___ Fill in the blank
  • 🏰 Castle trip on ___ Fill in the blank
  • 🏰 Guided tour at ___ Fill in the blank
  • 🏯 Next castle on the list: ___ Fill in the blank
  • 🏰 Once upon a time For the start of a story
  • 🏖️ Sandcastle contest at ___ Fill in the blank
  • 🏰 Welcome to my castle For a bio or a doormat
  • ♜ Your move For a chess game

Castle combos 16

  • Bouncy castle Balloon, then castle, then balloon.
  • Castle at night Castle, then crescent moon.
  • Castle by the sea Castle, then water wave.
  • Castle tour Castle, then camera.
  • Castle wedding Castle, then ring.
  • Castle with a moat Water wave, then castle, then water wave.
  • Castles, east and west Japanese castle, then castle.
  • Dragon trouble Shield, then dragon, then castle.
  • Fairy tale castle Sparkles, then castle, then sparkles.
  • Haunted castle Castle, then ghost.
  • Hilltop castle Mountain, then castle.
  • Locked in the tower Castle, then locked.
  • Princess in the tower Princess, then castle.
  • Royal household Prince, then princess, then castle.
  • School trip to the castle Bus, then castle.
  • Snow castle Snowflake, then castle.

How this list was compiled: Built on 2026-10-10 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). Castle is U+1F3F0, Emoji 0.6, in the group Travel & Places, subgroup place-building, between Japanese castle (U+1F3EF, Emoji 0.6) and Wedding; Factory stands before Japanese castle. Its CLDR words are building, castle and European; those of Japanese castle are building, castle and Japanese. Two emoji are filed under castle, two under European (Post office and Castle), 27 under Japanese and 19 under building; Tokyo tower is the only emoji under tower; Dragon and Fleur-de-lis are the two under knights; Guard, Man guard and Woman guard are the three under palace; rook leads to Black bird alone. Nothing is filed under fort, fortress, moat, knight, turret or drawbridge. The skin tones are the five rows emoji-test.txt lists for Guard. Character names, notes and headings are from UnicodeData.txt and NamesList.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt, https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/NamesList.txt): U+1F3F0 is named European castle and U+1F3EF Japanese castle; the third character with castle in its name is U+26EB Castle, under the heading Map symbols from ARIB STD B24, cross-referenced to European castle; U+2656 and U+265C are White and Black chess rook. U+26EB dates from Unicode 5.2, U+1F3F0 from 6.0 and the rooks from 1.1 by DerivedAge.txt (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/DerivedAge.txt). None of the three castles has a text style row in https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/emoji/emoji-variation-sequences.txt. The Han characters' definitions are from the Unihan database, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/Unihan.zip), field kDefinition. Wikipedia, ARIB STD B24 character set (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARIB_STD_B24_character_set): a character encoding for Japanese-language broadcasting; its table lists U+26EB Castle. Wikipedia, Japanese castle (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_castle): fortresses constructed primarily of wood and stone; the character is pronounced shiro as a standalone word; the main keep is the tenshu. Wikipedia's List of emoticons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emoticons) has no castle. The definitions of castle, rook and castling, the Latin origin of castle, the castle parts and sayings, and the words in other languages are as Wiktionary gives them (CC BY-SA 4.0): castle (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/castle), rook (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rook), castling (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/castling), keep (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/keep), moat (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/moat), drawbridge (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/drawbridge), portcullis (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/portcullis), gatehouse (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gatehouse), barbican (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/barbican), turret (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/turret), curtain wall (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/curtain_wall), bailey (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bailey), motte (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/motte), crenel (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/crenel), arrowslit (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/arrowslit), great hall (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/great_hall), dungeon (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dungeon), sandcastle (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sandcastle), build castles in the air (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/build_castles_in_the_air), château (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/château), castillo (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/castillo), castello (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/castello), Burg (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Burg), Schloss (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Schloss), kasteel (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kasteel), zamek (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/zamek), 城 (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/城). The three typed walls, the two drawings, the eight lines and the 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, and the Han definitions are Unihan 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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