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🧑‍🚀 Astronaut

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🧑‍🚀 Emoji meaning

Let’s go to space! Adventure, innovation, space travel, science, and the future.

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🧑‍🚀 Meaning

As a kid I wanted to become an astronaut! The astronaut in a space suit explores the universe in a spaceship. Also used to express interest in space travel and planets. Represents the desire to discover something new and to increase the expansion of the mind.

Examples

Sometimes I dream about space. 🧑‍🚀
Would you fly to the moon with me? 🧑‍🚀
I feel like I'm on a mission today! 🧑‍🚀

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Commonly confused with

ZWJ Sequence

Astronaut

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Astronaut vs man astronaut; both stand for space explorers, gender marker aside.

Variants

Skin tones

gender

U+1F468 U+200D U+1F680

Man astronaut

Skin tones

gender

U+1F469 U+200D U+1F680

Woman astronaut

Skin tones

Emoji History

Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexicon

First included

The emoji “Astronaut” was approved as part of Unicode 12.1 in 2019 and added to Emoji 12.1 .

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

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ space

In the release of Emoji 12.1 and Unicode 12.1 in 2019 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ astronaut + rocket

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