How to type Airplane
To type Airplane (✈), press Alt + 9992 on Windows, holding Alt while typing the digits on the numeric keypad, or write ✈ in HTML. On any system you can copy it from this page, or enter its codepoint U+2708 directly: Ctrl+Shift+U then 2708 on Linux, or 2708 then Alt+X in Microsoft Word.
Airplane
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- Unicode
- U+2708
- Windows
- Alt + 9992 needs regedit
| Where | Shortcut | How |
|---|---|---|
| Windows | Alt + 9992 | Above 255, so Windows will not accept it as typed. Copy the character instead. |
| Mac | N/A | Press the keys together. |
| HTML | ✈ | Paste this into HTML source. |
| Unicode | U+2708 | AIRPLANE |
Other symbols
✈ lives in the Dingbats block (U+2700-U+27BF), the printer's ornaments from the classic Zapf Dingbats font. Within Unicode it is classified as So, a symbol.
How to type ✈ in Microsoft Word
In Microsoft Word, type 2708 and press Alt + X. Word reads the four characters before the cursor as a hex codepoint and replaces them, and pressing Alt + X again turns ✈ back into 2708, which is the quickest way to check what a character really is.
What Airplane is used for
Unicode publishes a second list of names for ✈ in CLDR, the keywords its own search data offers rather than the formal name, and they are aeroplane, fly, flying and jet. Those words are what somebody looking for this character is liable to type when Airplane is not the name they know it by, and the search on the symbol lists matches them as well as the Unicode name.
What Unicode says about Airplane
The code chart points from ✈ to up-pointing airplane (U+1F6E7). These are the characters the standard thinks you might have meant instead, which makes them the ones worth checking when Airplane looks nearly right but not quite.
How Airplane behaves in software
✈ takes one column in a terminal. It carries no direction of its own, so in a line that mixes English with Arabic or Hebrew it takes the direction of the text around it rather than forcing one.
What people ask about Airplane
How to insert airplane symbol in word?
In Word, type 2708 and press Alt+X, which converts the codepoint you just typed into ✈. Insert › Symbol › More Symbols finds it by its Unicode name, AIRPLANE. Google Docs has no Alt+X, so use Alt + 9992 there, or Insert › Special characters and search the same name.
Every way to write Airplane
| Form | Value |
|---|---|
| Codepoint | U+2708 |
| Decimal | 9992 |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 9C 88 |
| UTF-16 bytes | 27 08 |
| HTML entity | ✈ |
| HTML numeric | ✈ or ✈ |
| CSS | \2708 |
| JavaScript | \u2708 |
| Python | \u2708 |
| URL-encoded | %E2%9C%88 |
| SVG | 2708.svg · (SIL Open Font License) |
If ✈ arrives as ✈
One character has become three, which is what a three-byte UTF-8 sequence looks like when each byte is read separately: E2 9C 88 read as Windows-1252 gives exactly ✈. The text is intact and the damage is in the reading, so setting the reader to UTF-8 restores it and retyping does not. A rectangle instead of the mojibake means the opposite: the encoding is right and the font has no glyph at U+2708, which for a character this far outside Latin-1 is common in older office fonts.