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🏢 Office building

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🏢 Emoji meaning

Off to the office! Workplace, business life, bureaucracy, or big city.

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🏢 Meaning

I have to go back to the office! A tall building that houses offices. Usually found in larger cities. Represents work in general or life in the big city.

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Commonly confused with

Direction Variant

Office building

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Cityscape vs office building; both high-rise silhouettes representing cities or downtown.

Same Shape

Office building

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Classical building

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

Office building

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Department store

Office building vs department store; both multi-story commercial buildings in city contexts.

Office building

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School vs office building; generic multi-story buildings where context clarifies school vs office.

Emoji History

Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexicon

First included

The emoji “Office building” was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and added to Emoji 0.6 .

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

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ city + cubical + job + office

Keywords removed

- office building

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

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ office building

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

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ building

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