helicopter Emoji
🚁 · U+1F681 · Emoji 1.0
What does the helicopter emoji mean?
When transportation options need to be depicted in a more specialized or exciting way, the 🚁 helicopter emoji represents a rotorcraft that uses spinning blades to generate lift, commonly used for emergency services, tourism, or military operations, and also figuratively to signify a dramatic entrance or exit, or in slang, to express a humorous or exaggerated departure, as popularized by internet memes like roflcopter.
helicopter emoji examples
- just landed in vegas via 🚁
- roflcopter out of here 🚁
How to copy the helicopter emoji
To use the helicopter emoji, tap the Copy button above, then paste it (long-press then Paste on mobile, or Ctrl+V / Cmd+V on desktop) anywhere you can type: messages, captions, usernames, bios and documents. It copies the real Unicode character (U+1F681), so it works on every app and platform, no download needed.
Also known as
helicopter emoji on different platforms
How the helicopter emoji looks on your device and in the openly licensed sets that include it (Twitter / X (Twemoji), Google Noto Color Emoji, OpenMoji). See image credits.
helicopter Emoji Details
| Emoji | 🚁 |
| Name | helicopter |
| Category | Travel & Places |
| Codepoints | U+1F681 |
| Shortcode | :helicopter: |
| Sources | Unicode emoji list · codepoints.net |
| Emoji version | 1.0 (2015) |
helicopter Emoji FAQ
It is U+1F681, added in Emoji 1.0 (2015). On GitHub, Slack and Discord you can type it as :helicopter:.
People also search for the helicopter emoji as copter, roflcopter, travel, vehicle.