# 🪨 Rock emoji

🪨 Rock is an emoji in the buildings set of Travel & places. It was added in Emoji 13.0 in 2020. Related words: boulder, heavy, solid, stone and tough.

- Emoji: 🪨
- Unicode name: rock
- Code points: U+1FAA8
- Category: Travel & places, Buildings
- Added: Emoji 13.0 (2020)
- GitHub shortcode: :rock:
- Keywords: boulder, heavy, rock, solid, stone, tough
- Page: https://emojichart.com/rock-emoji

## What it means

Depicting a single gray boulder or stone with a rough, solid shape. It is a common choice for rocks, stones, geology and landscaping, for anything heavy, hard or solid, and figuratively for a dependable person, as in being a rock for someone.

## How to type 🪨

- iPhone and iPad: Open the emoji keyboard, tap Search Emoji and type “rock”.
- Android: In Gboard, tap the emoji button and search for “rock”.
- Mac: Press Control–Command–Space (or Globe + E) and type “rock”.
- Windows: Press Windows + . (period) and type “rock”.
- GitHub: Type :rock: in an issue, pull request or comment.

## In other languages

| Language | Name | Keywords |
|---|---|---|
| Español (es) | piedra | pedrusco, peña, peñasco, piedra, roca |
| Français (fr) | rocher | caillou, dur, lourd, pierre, roc, roche, rocher, solide |
| Deutsch (de) | Felsen | Felsen, felsig, hart, Natur, schwer, Stein, steinig |
| Italiano (it) | roccia | duro, macigno, masso, pesante, pietra, roccia, sasso, solido |
| Português (pt) | pedra | pedra, pedregulho, pesado, rocha, seixo, sólido |
| Nederlands (nl) | rots | betrouwbaar, graniet, rots, rotsblok, steen, sterk, zwaar |
| Svenska (sv) | sten | berg, bumling, klippa, sten |
| Polski (pl) | skała | blok skalny, bryła, ciężki, głaz, kamień, minerał, odłamek, opoka, skała, twardy |
| Türkçe (tr) | kaya | ağır, büyük kaya, çakıl, katı, kaya, kayalık, sert, seyahat, taş |
| Русский (ru) | камень | булыжник, жесткий, камень, скала, твердый, тяжелый |
| Українська (uk) | камінь | брила, важкий, валун, гірська порода, каменюка, камінь, кругляк, скеля, твердий |
| Ελληνικά (el) | πέτρα | βαρύ, βράχος, ογκόλιθος, πέτρα, ρίχνω, σκληρός, συμπαγές |
| العربية (ar) | صخرة | أماكن, تضاريس, ثقيل, جلمود, حجر, صخر, صخرة, صلب, طوب, قاس, قسوة, وعر |
| עברית (he) | סלע | אבן, בולדר, סלע, סלעים, קשה |
| فارسی (fa) | صخره | تخته سنگ, جامد, زمخت, سفت, سفر, سنگ, سنگین, صخره, قلوه سنگ, محکم, مسافرت و مکان‌ها |
| हिन्दी (hi) | चट्टान | कंकर, कठोर, गोल पत्थर, चट्टान, ठोस, पत्थर, भारी, मजबूत |
| বাংলা (bn) | পাথর | কঠিন, কঠোর, নুড়ি, পাথর, ভারি, শিলা, শিলাখণ্ড |
| Bahasa Indonesia (id) | batu | batu, batu besar, batu kali, berat, cadas, keras, padat, solid |
| Tiếng Việt (vi) | đá | đá, hòn đá, nặng, rắn, tảng đá |
| ไทย (th) | หิน | ก้อนหิน, ของแข็ง, หนัก, หิน, หินก้อนใหญ่ |
| 日本語 (ja) | 岩石 | 岩, 岩石, 巨岩, 石, 石材, 硬い, 重たい |
| 한국어 (ko) | 바위 | 단단한, 돌, 무거운, 바위, 스톤, 암석 |
| 中文（简体） (zh) | 岩石 | 固体, 坚不可摧, 岩石, 巨石, 石头 |
| 中文（繁體） (zh-Hant) | 石頭 | 岩石, 巨石, 巨礫, 石材, 石頭, 硬 |

More languages:

- Afrikaans (af): rots
- Akan (ak): ɛboͻ
- Albanian (sq): shkëmb
- Amharic (am): አለት
- Armenian (hy): քար
- Assamese (as): শিল
- Azerbaijani (az): qaya
- Bashkir (ba): таш
- Basque (eu): harria
- Belarusian (be): камень
- Bosnian (bs): kamen
- Breton (br): rocʼh
- Bulgarian (bg): скала
- Burmese (my): ကျောက်
- Canadian French (fr-CA): roche
- Cantonese (yue): 石頭
- Cantonese (Simplified) (yue-Hans): 石头
- Catalan (ca): roca
- Cherokee (chr): ᏅᏯᎢ
- Chuvash (cv): чул
- Croatian (hr): kamen
- Czech (cs): kámen
- Danish (da): sten
- Estonian (et): kivi
- Faroese (fo): steinur
- Filipino (fil): bato
- Finnish (fi): kivi
- Galician (gl): pedra
- Georgian (ka): კლდე
- Gujarati (gu): ખડક
- Hausa (ha): dutse
- Hungarian (hu): szikla
- Icelandic (is): steinn
- Igbo (ig): okwute
- Irish (ga): carraig
- Javanese (jv): watu
- Kannada (kn): ಬಂಡೆ
- Kazakh (kk): тас
- Kazakh (Arabic) (kk-Arab): تاس
- Khmer (km): ថ្ម
- Konkani (kok): फातोर
- Kyrgyz (ky): таш
- Lao (lo): ໂງ່ນຫີນ
- Latvian (lv): akmens
- Lithuanian (lt): uoliena
- Lower Sorbian (dsb): skała
- Macedonian (mk): камен
- Malay (ms): batuan
- Malayalam (ml): പാറ
- Marathi (mr): दगड
- Mongolian (mn): хад
- Nepali (ne): रक
- Nigerian Pidgin (pcm): Rọk
- Norwegian (no): stein
- Odia (or): ଶିଳା
- Oromo (om): kattaa
- Pashto (ps): تیږه
- Punjabi (pa): ਪੱਥਰ
- Quechua (qu): rumi
- Romanian (ro): piatră
- Romansh (rm): grip
- Sardinian (sc): roca
- Scottish Gaelic (gd): creag
- Serbian (sr): камен
- Serbian (Latin) (sr-Latn): kamen
- Shan (shn): မၢၵ်ႇႁိၼ်
- Sindhi (sd): ٽڪري
- Sinhala (si): ගල
- Slovak (sk): kameň
- Slovenian (sl): skala
- Somali (so): dhagax
- Swahili (sw): mwamba
- Tamil (ta): பாறை
- Telugu (te): రాయి
- Tigrinya (ti): ከውሒ
- Tongan (to): maka
- Turkmen (tk): daş
- Upper Sorbian (hsb): skała
- Urdu (ur): چٹان
- Uzbek (uz): tosh
- Welsh (cy): carreg
- Yoruba (yo): àpáta
- Zulu (zu): idwala

## Codes

| Format | Code |
|---|---|
| Code points | `U+1FAA8` |
| HTML | `🪨` |
| CSS | `\1FAA8` |
| JavaScript, Rust, Swift | `\u{1FAA8}` |
| Python | `\U0001FAA8` |
| UTF-8 bytes | `F0 9F AA A8` |
| UTF-16 | `D83E DEA8` |
| URL encoded | `%F0%9F%AA%A8` |

## Questions

### What does the 🪨 rock emoji mean?

Depicting a single gray boulder or stone with a rough, solid shape. It is a common choice for rocks, stones, geology and landscaping, for anything heavy, hard or solid, and figuratively for a dependable person, as in being a rock for someone.

### How do I type the 🪨 emoji?

On iPhone, iPad or Android, search the emoji keyboard for “rock”. On a Mac press Control–Command–Space, and on Windows press Windows + period, then type the same words. You can also copy it from this page. On GitHub, type :rock:.

### When was the 🪨 emoji added?

🪨 was added in Emoji 13.0, released in 2020.

### What is the Unicode code point for 🪨?

U+1FAA8. In HTML you can write 🪨, and in JavaScript, Rust or Swift \u{1FAA8}.

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Source: Unicode Emoji 18.0 and Unicode CLDR 49.0.0. Emoji Chart · https://emojichart.com/rock-emoji