🎁Wrapped Gift Emoji
Generally, it just means someone is offering you a gift or acknowledging that you’re receiving one. It’s a simple way to show you’re thinking of someone.
The 🎁 emoji is a wrapped gift.
- Unicode
- U+1F381
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :gift:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🎁 Wrapped Gift emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 9 of them.
People also look for it as gift emoji, present emoji.
Wrapped Gift emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F381. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 9.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Facebook, Messenger
Open-source, design systems
Galaxy, One UI
Windows, Teams, Fluent
WhatsApp on Android
Slack, Discord themes
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Wrapped Gift emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :gift:.
In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the wrapped gift, code point U+1F381.
How to type the 🎁 Wrapped Gift emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F381 when there is no key at all.
Wrapped Gift emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the wrapped gift as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Wrapped Gift emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around wrapped gift for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
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.
What 🎁 means from a girl or a guy
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
What 🎁 means in other countries
A near-universal gift symbol, though the specific occasions it implies shift by region, holiday, and season.
Peaks around Christmas and birthdays as the default gift-giving icon.
Equally common around Lunar New Year and other major gift-exchange holidays.
Before you send it: Safe in any gift-related message across regions; no need to adjust the emoji for your audience.
What 🎁 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the wrapped gift lands changes how it is taken.
Where the 🎁 Wrapped Gift 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+1F381 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 E685, KDDI au E4CF, SoftBank E112.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Wrapped Gift was approved as U+1F381 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.