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Ancient building emoji

🏛️ Classical building

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🏛️ Emoji meaning

Temples, museums, architecture, culture, history, law, and government.

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🏛️ Meaning

Today, ancient buildings, mostly with columns and ornaments, can still be found worldwide. Represents culture, e.g. visiting a museum or architecture in general.

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Commonly confused with

Same Shape

Classical building

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Office building

Classical building vs office building; both multi-column or multi-story civic-looking buildings.

Classical building

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Statue of Liberty

Statue of Liberty vs classical building; both monumental landmarks used to represent famous places or cities.

Emoji History

Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexicon

First included

The emoji “Classical building” was approved as part of Unicode 7.0 in 2014 and added to Emoji 0.7 .

In the release of Emoji 16.0 and Unicode 16.0 in 2024 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ building

Keywords removed

- classical building

In the release of Emoji 5.0 and Unicode 10.0 in 2017 there was 1 change.

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+ classical building

In the release of Emoji 3.0 and Unicode 9.0 in 2016 there was 1 change.

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+ classical

In the release of Emoji 2.0 and Unicode 8.0 in 2015 there was 1 change.

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- classical

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