👘Kimono Emoji
Generally, the 👘 emoji means “kimono” or represents Japanese culture. It’s often used to show appreciation for Japanese fashion, art, or traditions.
The 👘 emoji represents a kimono, a traditional Japanese robe.
- Unicode
- U+1F458
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :kimono:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 👘 Kimono emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 2 of them.
Kimono emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the kimono 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.
Kimono 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 :kimono:.
In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F458.
How to type the 👘 Kimono emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F458 when there is no key at all.
Kimono emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the kimono as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Kimono emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around kimono 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 kimono and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
What 👘 means in other countries
A specific, ceremony-linked Japanese garment, not a generic “robe” — using it loosely flattens the reference.
Formal traditional dress tied to ceremonies, seasons, and identity, not everyday loungewear.
A celebrity’s attempt to trademark “Kimono” as a shapewear brand triggered public backlash over appropriation.
Sometimes used loosely for any robe-like garment, which misses the reference.
Before you send it: Use it for an actual kimono or Japanese-culture context; caption a bathrobe with something else.
What 👘 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F458, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
Where the 👘 Kimono 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+1F458 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 EAA3, SoftBank E321.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Kimono was approved as U+1F458 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.