๐Bikini Emoji
Generally, it just means a bikini. People use it to represent swimwear or a beachy vibe.
The ๐ emoji is a bikini.
- Unicode
- U+1F459
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :bikini:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the ๐ Bikini emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 6.
People also look for it as pool emoji.
Bikini emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F459. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 9.
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 โ iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Bikini emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation โ including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :bikini:.
In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F459.
How to type the ๐ Bikini emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F459 when there is no key at all.
Bikini emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files โ one file per vendor, which makes 9. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Bikini emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around bikini 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 ๐, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
What ๐ means from a girl or a guy
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
What ๐ means in other countries
Reads as vacation planning in most casual chat, but easily shifts to a body or attraction reference in flirtier contexts.
Often stands in for attraction or a compliment rather than literal swimwear.
Swimwear imagery carries modesty sensitivities beyond the casual reading it gets elsewhere.
Plain literal use โ packing lists, weather talk, or plans for the beach.
Before you send it: Fine for trip planning with friends; think twice before sending it to someone you donโt know well.
What ๐ means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
The character is the same everywhere, but the artwork and the reading of it change from app to app.
Where the ๐ Bikini 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 โ U+1F459 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.
๐ existed there as
KDDI au EAA4, SoftBank E322.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all โ Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Bikini was approved as U+1F459 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 ๐ is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes โ only the picture does.