How to Type Award Medals Emoji with Keyboard?

Unicode has thousands of emoji symbols you can copy and paste on your documents. However, it is also easy to type the emoji symbols on Office applications like Outlook, Word, Excel or PowerPoint and other social applications like Facebook or Twitter. Award medals are part of “Activities” group in Unicode emoji list. Here we will explain how to type award medal emoji with keyboard in Windows and Mac.

Award Medal Emoji Symbols

There are six award medal emoji as given in the below table.

Award Medal Symbol	Name	Decimal Code	Hexadecimal Code
🎖	Military Medal	Alt + 127894	1F396 Alt + X
🏆	Trophy	Alt + 127942	1F3C6 Alt + X
🏅	Sports Medal	Alt + 127941	1F3C5 Alt + X
🥇	Gold Medal	Alt + 129351	1F947 Alt + X
🥈	Silver Medal	Alt + 129352	1F948 Alt + X
🥉	Bronze Medal	Alt + 129353	1F949 Alt + X

How to Type Award Medal Emoji Symbols?

There are different methods to type these symbols depending on the application and operating system you use.

Award Medals in Using Alt Code in Windows

In Windows applications like Microsoft Word and Outlook, you can use alt code shortcuts with the decimal code.

Turn on Num Lock key on your keyboard.
Hold one of the alt key on your keyboard. Some keyboards may have AltGr key and on some keyboards, you may need to hold alt and function keys together.
Type the decimal numbers using number pad.

For example, alt + 129351 will make the 1^st place or gold award emoji symbol like 🥇.

Alt + X Codes in Word in Windows

If your keyboard does not have separate number pad, then you can try this method. However, it will only work in Microsoft Word documents.

Type the hexadecimal code of the symbol.
Press alt and then x keys together to convert the code into an emoji.

For example, 1F3C5 Alt + X will make sports medal emoji symbol like ?.

Using Emoji Panel in Windows 10

Sometimes you may need to use the award symbols frequently like preparing the chart in PowerPoint. Remembering the decimal codes for all the emoji symbols is a difficult task. In this case, you can easily insert award emoji using emoji panel in Windows 10 computers.

Position the cursor on the place where you want to insert the emoji.
Press “Win Logo + Dot” keys to open the emoji panel pop-up.
Type “medal” to filter the relevant emoji symbols.
Click on the emoji to insert on the cursor position.

This works on all applications in Windows 10 computer.

Type Award Medals in Mac

Unfortunately, keyboard shortcuts for award emoji symbols will not work on Mac. You have to use Character Viewer to insert these emoji.

Position the cursor on the place where you want to insert the emoji.
Press “Command + Control + Space” to open Character Viewer app.
If you see the smaller app, click on the symbols icon on top right corner to expand the app.
Type “medal” in the search box to filter the award medals emoji.
Double click on the emoji symbol to insert on the cursor position.

This method will work on all Mac applications. In fact, you can open the Character Viewer app by navigating to “Edit > Emoji & Symbols” menu in all Mac applications.

Note: 1st place, 2nd place and 3rd place emoji are named as gold medal, silver medal and bronze medal respectively in MAc.

Type Award Medals Emoji in HTML Documents

Follow the below instructions if you want to insert award medals emoji in HTML documents.

Decimal code – use the decimal code in the format 🥈.
Hexadecimal code – alternatively, use the hexadecimal code in the format 🎖.

Insert Award Medals Emoji in CSS

You can use the hexadecimal code like /1F949; along with pseudo selectors in CSS to insert these emoji symbols. Below is an example code of using 1^st place award medal emoji with list element.

li:before {
	content:\1F396;
}

Symbol Display in Platforms

Below is how the award emoji medals will look like on popular platforms. You can insert the emoji using one of the above-mentioned methods. However, the display will vary based on the app or platform you use.

Symbol Variations

Though all award medals emoji appears in bright colors on Facebook and Twitter, Office applications will display them in grey scale. You can customize these black and white symbols with different colors to align with your content. Below is an example of a medal podium created in Word with table and award medals emoji.

Shortcuts Image Reference

Below is the image reference for award medals emoji shortcuts. You can right click and save the image for offline reference.

How to Type Award Medals Emoji with Keyboard?

Award Medal Emoji Symbols

How to Type Award Medal Emoji Symbols?