Travel & Places · Emoji 0.6
🏬Department Store Emoji
It usually just means “department store.” People use it to quickly represent a large retail space.
The 🏬 emoji represents a department store.
- Unicode
- U+1F3EC
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :department_
store: - Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🏬 Department Store emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
02 — Platforms
Department Store emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the department store has been drawn in 4 ways.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Department Store 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 :department_store:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the department store, code point U+1F3EC.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🏬 Department Store emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
05 — Download
Department Store emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the department store as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
06 — Combinations
Department Store emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around department store for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
All combinations →Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that for every pair Google has drawn, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
07 — In conversation
What 🏬 means from a girl or a guy
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
08 — Apps
What 🏬 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F3EC, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
10 — History
Where the 🏬 Department Store 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+1F3EC 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
KDDI au EAF6, SoftBank E504.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Department Store was approved as U+1F3EC 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.
11 — FAQ