📊

bar chart

Unicode: 1F4CA

Description

A bar chart or bar graph, typically depicting data with vertical bars of varying heights.

Group:

Objects > office

Status:

fully-qualified

Emotion:

Neutral, primarily used for conveying information or data. Can imply analysis, statistics, or progress.

Backstory

This emoji was introduced in Unicode 6.0 (2010). It represents one of the fundamental types of statistical charts, frequently used to compare different categories of data.

Usage Examples

  • Showing progress: 'Our sales are up this quarter! 📊'
  • Presenting data: 'Here's the breakdown of user demographics. 📊'
  • Discussing statistics: 'The latest economic indicators are worrying. 📊'

Cultural Differences

Western culture:

Widely recognized as a standard tool for data visualization in business, science, and education.

East Asian culture:

Also a standard representation for data, used similarly in professional and academic contexts.