This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.
The glyph is not a composition. Its East Asian Width is wide. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+1F6DF offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts.
The CLDR project calls this character βring buoyβ for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: buoy, float, life, lifesaver, preserver, rescue, ring, safety, save, saver, swim.
This character is designated as an emoji. It will be rendered as colorful emoji on conforming platforms. To reduce it to a monochrome character, you can combine it with Variation Selector-15: ποΈ See the Emojipedia for more details on this characterβs emoji properties.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
A lifebuoy is a life-saving buoy designed to be thrown to a person in water to provide buoyancy and prevent drowning. Some modern lifebuoys are fitted with one or more seawater-activated lights to aid rescue at night.
Representations
System
Representation (click value to copy)
NΒΊ
128735
UTF-8
F0 9F 9B 9F
UTF-16
D8 3D DE DF
UTF-32
00 01 F6 DF
URL-Quoted
%F0%9F%9B%9F
HTML hex reference
🛟
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake
Γ°ΕΈβΊΕΈ
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes)
95 30 94 39
RFC 5137
\u'1F6DF'
Bash and Zsh inside echo -e
\U0001F6DF
C and C++
\U0001F6DF
C#
\U0001F6DF
CSS
\01F6DF
Excel
=UNICHAR(128735)
Go
\U0001F6DF
JavaScript
\uD83D\uDEDF
Modern JavaScript since ES6
\u{1f6df}
JSON
\uD83D\uDEDF
Java
\uD83D\uDEDF
Lua
\u{1F6DF}
Matlab
char(128735)
Perl
"\x{1F6DF}"
PHP
\u{1f6df}
PostgreSQL
U&'\+01F6DF'
PowerShell
`u{1F6DF}
Python
\U0001F6DF
Ruby
\u{1f6df}
Rust
\u{1f6df}
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