👕T-shirt Emoji
Generally, the 👕 emoji means a t-shirt or shirt. It’s a straightforward way to represent that type of clothing in a text message.
The 👕 emoji represents a t-shirt or shirt.
- Unicode
- U+1F455
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :shirt:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 👕 T-shirt emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 11 of them.
People also look for it as tshirt emoji.
T-shirt emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the t-shirt has been drawn in 4 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.
T-shirt 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 :shirt:.
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+1F455.
How to type the 👕 T-shirt emoji
No picker to hand? The t-shirt can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
T-shirt 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
T-shirt emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around t-shirt 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 in other countries
The default symbol for casual dress worldwide, with no real cultural split — only the printed slogan on an actual shirt matters.
Signals “dressed down”, a casual plan, or simply that no particular dress code applies.
Often stands in for band, event, or team merchandise rather than the garment itself.
Before you send it: Use it freely for casual plans or merch talk — there’s no hidden reading to worry about.
What 👕 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the t-shirt 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: T-shirt
Code: U+1F455 · added 2010
Shortcode: :shirt:
Generally, the 👕 emoji means a t-shirt or shirt.
Unicode name: Grinning Face with Big Eyes
Code: U+1F603 · added 2010
Shortcode: :smiley:
Generally, 😃 means someone is happy and excited.
Where the 👕 T-shirt 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+1F455 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 E70E, KDDI au E5B6, SoftBank E006.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
T-shirt was approved as U+1F455 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.