👓Glasses Emoji
Generally, it just means glasses. People use it to show they're looking at something or to represent someone who wears glasses.
The 👓 emoji represents eyeglasses or spectacles.
- Unicode
- U+1F453
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :eyeglasses:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 👓 Glasses emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 4.
People also look for it as eyeglasses emoji.
Glasses emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the glasses 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.
Glasses emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :eyeglasses:.
In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the glasses, code point U+1F453.
How to type the 👓 Glasses emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
Glasses 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
Glasses emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around glasses 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 glasses and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
What 👓 means in other countries
A plain, descriptive accessory emoji with a mild 'smart or studious' association that holds steady across regions.
Playful nod to someone looking intellectual or nerdy.
Straightforward reference to needing or wearing eyewear.
Neutral, purely descriptive reference with no tone risk attached.
Before you send it: Use it however you like — there's no notable divergence in how people read it.
What 👓 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the glasses 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: Glasses
Code: U+1F453 · added 2010
Shortcode: :eyeglasses:
Generally, it just means glasses.
Unicode name: Smiling Face with Sunglasses
Code: U+1F60E · added 2015
Shortcode: :sunglasses:
Generally, it means you think something is cool or impressive.
Where the 👓 Glasses 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+1F453 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 E69A, KDDI au E4FE.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Glasses was approved as U+1F453 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.