🎓Graduation Cap Emoji
Generally, the 🎓 emoji means congratulations on graduating or achieving an educational accomplishment. It’s a simple way to show you recognize their success.
The 🎓 emoji is a graduation cap.
- Unicode
- U+1F393
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :mortar_board:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🎓 Graduation Cap emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
Graduation Cap emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the graduation cap as 9 vendors ship it.
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.
Graduation Cap 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 :mortar_board:.
In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the graduation cap, code point U+1F393.
How to type the 🎓 Graduation Cap emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F393 when there is no key at all.
Graduation Cap emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the graduation cap 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
Graduation Cap emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around graduation cap 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
Who sent the graduation cap and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
What 🎓 means in other countries
A near-universal symbol for academic achievement, recognized the same way across essentially every country.
Literal celebration of finishing a degree, course, or other academic program.
Sometimes used more loosely for “leveling up” or learning something new.
Before you send it: Send it freely for any graduation, course completion, or general learning milestone.
What 🎓 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the graduation cap lands changes how it is taken.
🎓 vs 🧢 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Graduation Cap
Code: U+1F393 · added 2010
Shortcode: :mortar_board:
Generally, the 🎓 emoji means congratulations on graduating or achieving an educational accomplishment.
Unicode name: Billed Cap
Code: U+1F9E2 · added 2017
Shortcode: :billed_cap:
Generally, it means “you’re lying” or “that’s not true.
Where the 🎓 Graduation Cap 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+1F393 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
KDDI au EAE5, SoftBank E439.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Graduation Cap was approved as U+1F393 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.