U+1F30C · emoji since 2010
The Milky Way is a glittering band of stars across a dark sky. It means the cosmos, stargazing, and the vast, dreamy night.
It headlines astronomy posts, deep thoughts, and that humbling feeling of looking up and seeing forever.
In texting, 🌌 does not carry a widely used hidden or slang meaning, so you can usually take it at face value. People send it just as it looks, to add a little visual touch or set the mood of a message. Only a handful of emoji have a separate texting code, and 🌌 is not really one of them.
Its official Unicode name is the Milky Way emoji. In everyday chat most people just call it the milky way emoji or describe what it shows. Copy and paste it from the button at the top of this page.
The 🌌 leads off a short phrase, and the rest of the words are written in cipher, every letter disguised as another emoji. Tap decipher to reveal the whole line.
Or make your own cipher in the translator.