Travel & Places · Emoji 14.0
🛟Ring Buoy Emoji
Generally, the ring buoy emoji means "safe" or “okay.” People use it to signal that they are feeling secure or to reassure someone else that they're alright.
The 🛟 emoji represents a ring buoy, a safety device used on boats and in the water.
- Unicode
- U+1F6DF
- Released
- 2021
- Shortcode
- :ring_
buoy: - Skin tones
- No
Added in Emoji 14.0. On phones older than iOS 16 / Android 13 it arrives as an empty box — the character exists, the artwork does not.
01 — Meaning
What does the 🛟 Ring Buoy emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
People also look for it as life ring emoji.
02 — Platforms
Ring Buoy emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F6DF. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 9.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Ring Buoy emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :ring_buoy:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Escapes for the languages people actually paste this into. Every one of them produces the same character, and that character is U+1F6DF.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🛟 Ring Buoy emoji
No picker to hand? The ring buoy can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
05 — Download
Ring Buoy 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.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
Microsoft
06 — Combinations
Ring Buoy emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around ring buoy 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 with 🛟, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
08 — In conversation
What 🛟 means from a girl or a guy
Who sent the ring buoy and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
09 — Apps
What 🛟 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F6DF, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
11 — Difference
🛟 vs 😋 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Ring Buoy
Code: U+1F6DF · added 2021
Shortcode: :ring_buoy:
Generally, the ring buoy emoji means "safe" or “okay.”
Unicode name: Face Savoring Food
Code: U+1F60B · added 2010
Shortcode: :yum:
Generally, 😋 means something is tasty or delicious.
12 — History
Where the 🛟 Ring Buoy emoji came from
When it was approved, which release it landed in, and how long phones have had it.
Same character every time — U+1F6DF 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.
Ring Buoy was approved as U+1F6DF and shipped in Emoji 14.0 (2021). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
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.
13 — FAQ