🎖Military Medal Emoji
Generally, the 🎖 emoji means someone is acknowledging a military medal or a display of bravery. It’s a way to show respect for someone’s service.
The 🎖 emoji represents a military medal.
- Unicode
- U+1F396
- Released
- 2014
- Shortcode
- :medal:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🎖 Military Medal emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 4.
Military Medal emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the military medal as 8 vendors ship it.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
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.
Military Medal emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :medal:.
In your code
Escapes for the languages people actually paste this into. Every one of them produces the same character, and that character is U+1F396.
How to type the 🎖 Military Medal emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F396 when there is no key at all.
Military Medal emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 8. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Military Medal emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around military medal 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
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
What 🎖 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
The character is the same everywhere, but the artwork and the reading of it change from app to app.
🎖 vs 🥇 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Military Medal
Code: U+1F396 · added 2014
Shortcode: :medal:
Generally, the 🎖 emoji means someone is acknowledging a military medal or a display of bravery.
Unicode name: 1st Place Medal
Code: U+1F947 · added 2016
Shortcode: :first_place_medal:
Means someone came in first or is the best at something.
Where the 🎖 Military Medal emoji came from
It arrived with the 0.7 release of the standard, which dates the military medal to 2014.
Same character every time — U+1F396 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.
Military Medal was approved as U+1F396 and shipped in Emoji 0.7 (2014). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 🎖 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.