Passenger ship emoji meaning

The passenger ship emoji is a graphical representation of a large ship designed to carry passengers. It typically depicts a large vessel with multiple decks, and a superstructure, with a large central hull. The ship could have multiple windows, portholes and a chimney stack and possibly a few lifeboats or life rafts hanging on the sides. The ship can be shown docked at a port, or sailing on the water, sometimes with a wake or a seagulls flying nearby. The color and details may depend on the platform. The passenger ship emoji is often used to symbolize travel, vacation, and leisure, and can also be used to represent large scale transportation or commercial shipping industry. It can also be used to represent luxury and comfort, and suggest that the person using it might be going on a cruise or a sea travel. It could also be used in context of maritime history and culture, and even large-scale sea evacuation.

The passenger ship emoji was approved in Unicode 7.0 and added in Emoji 1.0, see related proposal L2/11052