🎫Ticket Emoji
Generally, when someone sends you a 🎫, they’re inviting you to go with them to an event. It's a casual way to offer you a ticket.
The 🎫 emoji is a ticket.
- Unicode
- U+1F3AB
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :ticket:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🎫 Ticket emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 2 of them.
Ticket emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the ticket has been drawn in 5 ways.
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.
Ticket 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 :ticket:.
In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the ticket, code point U+1F3AB.
How to type the 🎫 Ticket emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
Ticket 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.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Ticket emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around ticket 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 ticket and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
What 🎫 means in other countries
A plain event-logistics icon — reads the same whether it’s a concert, flight, or raffle draw.
Standard for confirming attendance or sharing that tickets are booked.
Often stands in for a boarding pass, transit pass, or travel confirmation.
Before you send it: No real risk here; use it anywhere logistics, bookings, or plans come up in conversation.
What 🎫 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the ticket 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: Ticket
Code: U+1F3AB · added 2010
Shortcode: :ticket:
Generally, when someone sends you a 🎫, they’re inviting you to go with them to an event.
Unicode name: Admission Tickets
Code: U+1F39F · added 2014
Shortcode: :admission_tickets:
Generally, when someone sends you 🎟, they’re letting you know they have a ticket to something and want you to join them.
Where the 🎫 Ticket 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+1F3AB 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 E67E, KDDI au E49E, SoftBank E125.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Ticket was approved as U+1F3AB 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.