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In the standard set of Unicode emoji there is an emoticon for every occasion and text, and more often than not, even more than one. It would seem, why do you need several images of airplanes at once? But it is great to have a choice, even in small things. Today we are going to talk about the Plane Emoji, of which Unicode has four.
βοΈ The Plane Emoji was assigned the code U+2708 U+FE0F, with which it was added to the Places and Travel section of the Unicode 1.1 standard in 1993.
π©οΈ The Little Airplane emoticon was assigned the code U+1F6E9 U+FE0F, with which it was added to the Places and Travel section of the Unicode 7.0 standard in 2014.
π« The Takeoff emoticon was assigned the code U+1F6EB, with which it was added to the Places and Travel section of the Unicode 7.0 standard in 2014.
π¬ The Landing emoticon was assigned the code U+1F6EC, with which it was added to the Places and Travel section of the Unicode 7.0 standard in 2014.
Of course, the main meaning of any emoji with the image of an airplane is traveling. Emoticon plane means a trip on vacation, business trip. It is used in messages when going to the airport. Also the symbol is used when denoting air travel. Or as an image of airplane mode in the phone.
But in addition to this, the emoji Airplane can have other, more βromanticβ meanings. The airplane, as a work of human hands, furrowing the sky, borrowed some values from images with flying birds. In this sense, this group of emoticons would mean:
The airplane is associated with a flying bird. The choice of freedom-loving people who do not tolerate the framework and principles of society. Any bird has always been considered a living embodiment of something unattainable and beautiful flight, so the idea of an airplane symbolizes that any dream today can be realized by human hands independently, the mind today prevails over the air.
The airplane emoticon can be used in different contexts. For example, it can be used to indicate a planned trip or vacation, to describe a flight, or as an alert that you are about to take off and switch your phone to airplane mode. And emoji with taking off and landing airplanes are most often used in their direct meanings, at takeoff and landing. Good thing today most airplanes are equipped with Wi-Fi.
In some cases, the airplane emoji can also represent freedom, big plans and the desire to fly away from problems or worries.
So, today we have dealt with whether Plane Emoji have any additional or figurative meanings. Of course, most of the time these emoticons are used in their direct sense, in a context related to air travel, traveling or work trips. However, like almost everything, even an airplane has a secret meaning, namely dreaminess and freedom.