House Symbol

A symbol from the Technical Symbols collection. Click the symbol or the button below to copy.

Technical Symbols collection

Symbol: ⌂
Unicode: U+2302
HTML entity: ⌂
Category: Technical Symbols

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About the house symbol

The house symbol is a simple pictographic glyph depicting a small building with a pointed roof. It belongs to the Miscellaneous Technical block, where it serves as a generic icon for a home or dwelling in technical diagrams, maps, and early computing interfaces. Before the widespread adoption of emoji, this character was sometimes used in plain text as a substitute for a house icon, and it remains present in some character sets for legacy compatibility.

How to type House

Native keyboard shortcuts for each operating system — derived from the codepoint, so the steps below are always accurate.

Windows

2 options

In Word / Outlook: type 2302 then press Alt + X.
Anywhere: press Win + . to open the emoji & symbol picker, then search.

macOS

2 options

Enable “Unicode Hex Input” in System Settings → Keyboard, then hold Option and type 2302.
Or: Control + Command + Space opens the Character Viewer — search by name.