🎭Performing Arts Emoji
Generally, it means “drama” or “performance. ” People use it to lighten the mood or indicate something is over-the-top.
The 🎭 emoji represents theatrical masks.
- Unicode
- U+1F3AD
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :performing_arts:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🎭 Performing Arts emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 10.
People also look for it as art emoji.
Performing Arts emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the performing arts 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.
Performing Arts emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :performing_arts:.
In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F3AD.
How to type the 🎭 Performing Arts emoji
No picker to hand? The performing arts can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
Performing Arts 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
Performing Arts emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around performing arts 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 on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the performing arts lands changes how it is taken.
Where the 🎭 Performing Arts 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+1F3AD 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 E59D.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Performing Arts was approved as U+1F3AD 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.