This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. The character is also known as petrol station and gas station.
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+26FD offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts.
The CLDR project calls this character “fuel pump” for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: diesel, fuel, fuelpump, gas, gasoline, pump, station.
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: ⛽︎ See the Emojipedia for more details on this character’s emoji properties.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
A gasoline pump or fuel dispenser is a machine at a filling station that is used to pump gasoline (petrol), diesel, or other types of liquid fuel into vehicles. Gasoline pumps are also known as bowsers or petrol bowsers (in Australia and South Africa), petrol pumps (in Commonwealth countries), or gas pumps (in North America).
Representations
System
Representation (click value to copy)
Nº
9981
UTF-8
E2 9B BD
UTF-16
26 FD
UTF-32
00 00 26 FD
URL-Quoted
%E2%9B%BD
HTML hex reference
⛽
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake
⛽
alias
petrol station
alias
gas station
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes)
81 37 BB 35
RFC 5137
\u'26FD'
Bash and Zsh inside echo -e
\u26FD
C and C++
\u26FD
C#
\u26FD
CSS
\0026FD
Excel
=UNICHAR(9981)
Go
\u26FD
JavaScript
\u26FD
Modern JavaScript since ES6
\u{26fd}
JSON
\u26FD
Java
\u26FD
Lua
\u{26FD}
Matlab
char(9981)
Perl
"\x{26FD}"
PHP
\u{26fd}
PostgreSQL
U&'\26FD'
PowerShell
`u{26FD}
Python
\u26FD
Ruby
\u{26fd}
Rust
\u{26fd}
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