⚾Baseball Emoji
Generally, the baseball emoji means baseball itself. People use it to talk about the sport, or to show excitement about a baseball play.
The baseball emoji (⚾) represents a baseball.
- Unicode
- U+26BE
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :baseball:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the ⚾ Baseball emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 2 of them.
Baseball emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the baseball has been drawn in 5 ways.
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.
Baseball emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :baseball:.
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+26BE.
How to type the ⚾ Baseball emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+26BE when there is no key at all.
Baseball 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
Baseball emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around baseball 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
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
What ⚾ means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+26BE, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
Where the ⚾ Baseball 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+26BE 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 E653, KDDI au E4BA, SoftBank E016.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Baseball was approved as U+26BE 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.