Meaning
Tall buildings silhouette against a dusky sky painted in deep oranges, purples, and blues as daylight transitions to evening. The cityscape glows with warm artificial light from building windows, capturing that magical twilight hour when the urban landscape transforms. It's more atmospheric and moody than the bright-day cityscape variant.
People use 🌆 to evoke the feeling of city evenings—that golden hour glow over downtown, evening commutes, or the shift from day to nightlife. It's perfect for captioning dusk photos, discussing evening plans in the city, or describing the vibe of an urban evening. Photographers and city lovers favor it for its romantic, contemplative quality that day-cityscape lacks.
Beyond literal use, it carries connotations of urban sophistication, transition, and the hustle-to-chill shift from work to evening relaxation. It works beautifully in travel posts, real estate content, and aesthetic photography. The emoji conveys a sense of place and atmosphere that resonates with people who love city living.
The design emphasizes the interplay of natural sunset tones and artificial city lights, creating visual depth. Approved as part of Unicode Emoji 0.6 in 2010, this dusk variant has carved out its own niche alongside the daytime cityscape, offering users a more nuanced way to capture the urban evening mood.
Common Uses
- • Sharing dusk or golden hour city photos
- • Describing evening plans in urban settings
- • Capturing the vibe of city nightlife transitions
- • Aesthetic posts about urban beauty and architecture
Popular Combos
Did You Know?
The cityscape at dusk emoji is often preferred by real estate agents and city tourism boards because it conveys sophistication and desirability—studies show twilight urban imagery drives engagement in travel and relocation content.
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Technical Reference
Platform Shortcodes
:city_sunset: :city_sunset: :city_sunset: Developer Codes
| HTML (decimal) | 🌆 |
| HTML (hex) | 🌆 |
| CSS | \1F306 |
| JavaScript | \uD83C\uDF06 |
| Python | \U0001F306 |
| Java | \uD83C\uDF06 |
| Perl | \x{1F306} |
| PHP / Ruby | \x{1F306} |
| Punycode | xn--2qkm |
| URL Encoded | %F0%9F%8C%86 |
| UTF-8 Bytes | 0xF0 0x9F 0x8C 0x86 |
🌆 in 28 languages
Names sourced from Unicode CLDR and emojibase.
| Language | Name |
|---|---|
| Bengali | গোধূলিতে শহরের দৃশ্য |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 城市黄昏 |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 黃昏 |
| Danish | by i solnedgang |
| Dutch | stad bij schemering |
| English | cityscape at dusk |
| English (UK) | cityscape at dusk |
| Estonian | linna siluett videvikus |
| Finnish | kaupunkimaisema illanhämärässä |
| French | ville au crépuscule |
| German | Abendstimmung in der Stadt |
| Hindi | शाम का शहर |
| Hungarian | városkép alkonyatkor |
| Italian | città al tramonto |
| Japanese | 夕暮れの都会 |
| Korean | 도시 야경 |
| Lithuanian | sutemos virš miesto |
| Malay | panorama kota waktu senja |
| Norwegian | bylandskap i skumring |
| Polish | miasto o zmierzchu |
| Portuguese | cidade ao anoitecer |
| Russian | закат в городе |
| Spanish | ciudad al atardecer |
| Spanish (Mexico) | ciudad al atardecer |
| Swedish | stad i skymning |
| Thai | เมืองยามโพล้เพล้ |
| Ukrainian | місто в сутінках |
| Vietnamese | khung cảnh thành phố lúc chạng vạng |