Objects · Emoji 0.6
🎩Top Hat Emoji
Generally, the 🎩 emoji means “cool,” “awesome,” or “respect.” It’s often used to show appreciation or admiration for something or someone.
The 🎩 emoji represents a top hat.
- Unicode
- U+1F3A9
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :tophat:
- Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🎩 Top Hat emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 8 of them.
02 — Platforms
Top Hat emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the top hat as 9 vendors ship it.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Top Hat 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 :tophat:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the top hat, code point U+1F3A9.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🎩 Top Hat emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F3A9 when there is no key at all.
05 — Download
Top Hat emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the top hat as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
Microsoft
WhatsApp
06 — Combinations
Top Hat emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around top hat 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 for every pair Google has drawn, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
07 — In conversation
What 🎩 means from a girl or a guy
Who sent the top hat and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
08 — Around the world
What 🎩 means in other countries
Reads as “formal and old-fashioned” or “magician” rather than anything tied to a specific place today.
Historically linked to aristocratic formalwear, still seen at weddings in morning dress.
Shorthand for magicians pulling rabbits from hats, or the Monopoly board-game piece.
Before you send it: Use it for “fancy” or whimsical jokes without worrying about mixed signals anywhere.
09 — Apps
What 🎩 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the top hat lands changes how it is taken.
11 — Difference
🎩 vs 👒 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Top Hat
Code: U+1F3A9 · added 2010
Shortcode: :tophat:
Generally, the 🎩 emoji means “cool,” “awesome,” or “respect.”
Unicode name: Woman’s Hat
Code: U+1F452 · added 2010
Shortcode: :womans_hat:
Generally, it just means “hat.”
12 — History
Where the 🎩 Top Hat 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+1F3A9 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 E67C, KDDI au EAF5, SoftBank E503.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Top Hat was approved as U+1F3A9 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.
13 — FAQ