🎯 is the Unicode emoji DIRECT HIT (“bullseye”), code point U+1F3AF (decimal 127919) in the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block, added in Unicode 6.0. In HTML write 🎯, and in UTF-8 it is the 4 bytes F0 9F 8E AF.
Codes
| Where | How to write it |
|---|---|
| Code point | U+1F3AF |
| Decimal | 127919 |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 8E AF |
| UTF-16 (big-endian) | D83C DFAF |
| UTF-32 | 0001F3AF |
| HTML decimal | 🎯 |
| HTML hex | 🎯 |
| CSS | \1F3AF |
| JavaScript | \u{1F3AF} or \uD83C\uDFAF |
| JSON | \uD83C\uDFAF |
| Python | \U0001F3AF |
| Python by name | \N{DIRECT HIT} |
| Java, C# | \uD83C\uDFAF |
| Rust, Swift | \u{1F3AF} |
| Go, C, C++ | \U0001F3AF |
| URL (percent-encoded) | %F0%9F%8E%AF |
JavaScript and JSON strings store text as UTF-16, so this character takes two code units (a surrogate pair) and "🎯".length is 2. Python 3 strings count code points, so its length there is 1.
Properties
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Name | DIRECT HIT |
| Emoji name | bullseye |
| Code point | U+1F3AF (decimal 127919) |
| Block | Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs (U+1F300–U+1F5FF) |
| General category | So: Other symbol |
| Script | Common |
| Bidirectional class | ON: Other neutral |
| Mirrored in right-to-left text | No |
| First in Unicode version | 6.0 |
Nearby in Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
- 🎧 U+1F3A7 Headphone
- 🎨 U+1F3A8 Artist palette
- 🎩 U+1F3A9 Top hat
- 🎪 U+1F3AA Circus tent
- 🎫 U+1F3AB Ticket
- 🎬 U+1F3AC Clapper board
- 🎭 U+1F3AD Performing arts
- 🎮 U+1F3AE Video game
- 🎰 U+1F3B0 Slot machine
- 🎱 U+1F3B1 Pool 8 ball
- 🎲 U+1F3B2 Game die
- 🎳 U+1F3B3 Bowling
- 🎴 U+1F3B4 Flower playing cards
- 🎵 U+1F3B5 Musical note
- 🎶 U+1F3B6 Musical notes
- 🎷 U+1F3B7 Saxophone
All 768 characters: Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs.
Official reference
Questions people ask
- What is the HTML code for 🎯?
- Use 🎯 (decimal) or 🎯 (hex).
- What is the UTF-8 encoding of U+1F3AF?
- F0 9F 8E AF (hex), 4 bytes. In a URL it is %F0%9F%8E%AF.
- How do I write U+1F3AF in JavaScript or Python?
- JavaScript: \u{1F3AF} or \uD83C\uDFAF. Python: \U0001F3AF.
Source
Unicode Character Database 18.0.0 (Unicode License v3) and the Unicode emoji test data; HTML entity names from the WHATWG HTML Standard (CC BY 4.0). The encodings above are computed from the code point and checked against Python's encoders. How the character looks depends on your fonts.
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