Location pin symbol

Click any location symbol to copy it, then paste it into an address, a map caption, a social post or a message. The star of the page is the red map pin 📍 — technically Unicode’s “round pushpin” emoji — joined by its text-only cousins: the position indicator ⌖ that maps used before emoji existed, target marks ◎ ◉, flags, and the compass. Below the grid: ready-made address lines, the code table, and the display tips that explain why the same pin looks different on every phone.

Fastest choice: 📍 (U+1F4CD) is the pin every map app trained us to read as “here”. For documents and designs that must stay black-and-white, use ⌖ or ◎ instead — they are ordinary text characters and never turn into coloured emoji.

Location symbols — copy and paste

Ready-made location lines

Each card copies the whole line — swap in your own place and it is ready for a bio, an event post or a “find us” caption. In bios the pattern 📍 + city is the near-universal shorthand for where someone is based.

Location symbols in messages and posts — examples

Event announcement: “Launch night — Friday 7pm 📍 Rooftop, Marina Mall. Free entry, bring a friend.” The pin replaces a whole “the venue is” clause.
Business “find us” line: “⌖ King Fahd Road, Riyadh — open daily 9–9.” The text mark survives printing, PDFs and plain-text email where emoji sometimes vanish.
Group-chat meetup: “📌 Pinned: tickets under my name. 📍 Gate 3, look for the red pin flag 🚩” — one message carrying both jobs of the pin family: pinned information, and the place itself.

Location symbol codes

Display tips — why your pin changes its look

Emoji pins are pictures, not letters. 📍 renders from each platform’s emoji artwork: red and glossy on most phones, flatter on Windows, slightly different again in some apps. You cannot recolour it — for a pin in your brand colour, a text mark (⌖ ◎ ⚑) styled by your font colour is the only copy-paste route.
Text marks stay text. ⌖, ◎, ◉ and ⚑ inherit your font and colour and print cleanly in Word, PDFs and spreadsheets — the professional choice for documents, the invisible choice on colourful social feeds. Pick per destination.
Meaning is conventional, not coded. Nothing in Unicode names 📍 a “location pin” — it is a round pushpin that map apps adopted. In a chat it can also mean “pinned” (📌 is used for pinned posts and messages), so context does the final translation.

Explore more symbols

The pin’s neighbours live in the emoji hub, the travel set in transport emojis, and addresses pair naturally with the house symbol collection.

Frequently asked questions

What is the location symbol called in Unicode?

The famous red pin is ROUND PUSHPIN, U+1F4CD (HTML 📍). The older text mark designed for “place” is POSITION INDICATOR, ⌖ U+2316. Both copy from the grids above.

How do I put a location pin in my bio?

Copy 📍 from this page, paste it into your bio edit field, and add your city after it — 📍 Dubai, UAE is the standard pattern. Every symbol counts toward the bio’s character limit like a letter.

Why does the pin look different on my friend’s phone?

Emoji are drawn by each platform’s own artwork, so the same U+1F4CD character appears as different pin drawings on Apple, Google, Samsung and Windows devices. The character — and its meaning — travels; the drawing does not.

Can I change the pin’s colour?

Not for the emoji: its colour is baked into the platform artwork. If you need a specific colour, use a text mark such as ⌖ or ◎ and colour it with your app’s text-colour control.

What is the difference between 📍 and 📌?

📍 (round pushpin) is read as a map location. 📌 (pushpin) is read as “pinned” — a pinned post, message or note. Same family, different jobs.