🏢Office Building Emoji
Generally, when someone sends you the 🏢 emoji, they’re talking about an office or a business. It’s a quick way to indicate that something is related to work or a corporate environment.
The 🏢 emoji is a skyscraper.
- Unicode
- U+1F3E2
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :office:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🏢 Office Building emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 5 of them.
Office Building emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F3E2. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 9.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Facebook, Messenger
Open-source, design systems
Galaxy, One UI
Windows, Teams, Fluent
WhatsApp on Android
Slack, Discord themes
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Office Building emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :office:.
In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F3E2.
How to type the 🏢 Office Building emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
Office Building emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 9. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Office Building emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around office building for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with 🏢, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
What 🏢 means from a girl or a guy
Who sent the office building and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
What 🏢 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F3E2, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
🏢 vs 🏗 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Office Building
Code: U+1F3E2 · added 2010
Shortcode: :office:
Generally, when someone sends you the 🏢 emoji, they’re talking about an office or a business.
Unicode name: Building Construction
Code: U+1F3D7 · added 2014
Shortcode: :building_construction:
It usually means “under construction” or “building.
Where the 🏢 Office Building emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time — U+1F3E2 never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
🏢 existed there as
NTT DoCoMo E664, KDDI au E4AD, SoftBank E038.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Office Building was approved as U+1F3E2 and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 🏢 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.