Activities · Emoji 0.6
🎀Ribbon Emoji
Generally, it means “cute” or “pretty.” People use it to show they find something adorable or lovely.
The 🎀 emoji represents a bow or ribbon.
- Unicode
- U+1F380
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :ribbon:
- Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🎀 Ribbon emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
02 — Platforms
Ribbon emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the ribbon has been drawn in 5 ways.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Ribbon emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :ribbon:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the ribbon, code point U+1F380.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🎀 Ribbon emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F380 when there is no key at all.
05 — Download
Ribbon emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 9. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
Microsoft
WhatsApp
06 — Combinations
Ribbon emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around ribbon for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
All combinations →Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with 🎀, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
08 — In conversation
What 🎀 means from a girl or a guy
Who sent the ribbon and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
09 — Around the world
What 🎀 means in other countries
A decorative bow that doubles as internet aesthetic shorthand, reaching well beyond plain gift-wrapping references.
Literal — marks something as wrapped, festive, or a present.
Became a symbol of a bow-heavy, hyper-feminine style trend among younger users.
Before you send it: Reads as gifts or general cuteness depending on the surrounding context; harmless either way it lands.
10 — Apps
What 🎀 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F380, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
12 — Difference
🎀 vs 🎗️ — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Ribbon
Code: U+1F380 · added 2010
Shortcode: :ribbon:
Generally, it means “cute” or “pretty.”
Unicode name: Reminder Ribbon
Code: U+1F397 U+FE0F · added 2014
Shortcode: :reminder_ribbon:
Generally, when someone sends you the 🎗️ emoji, they’re showing you they care and want to offer support or remembrance for a difficult situation.
13 — History
Where the 🎀 Ribbon emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time — U+1F380 never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
🎀 existed there as
NTT DoCoMo E684, KDDI au E59F, SoftBank E314.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Ribbon was approved as U+1F380 and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 🎀 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.
14 — FAQ