👜Handbag Emoji
Generally, the 👜 emoji just means a handbag or purse. It's often used to point out something someone is carrying or to talk about fashion.
The 👜 emoji represents a handbag or purse.
- Unicode
- U+1F45C
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :handbag:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 👜 Handbag emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 7.
Handbag emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the handbag 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.
Handbag 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 :handbag:.
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+1F45C.
How to type the 👜 Handbag emoji
No picker to hand? The handbag can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
Handbag 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
Handbag emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around handbag 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
A plain accessory reference everywhere, standing in for shopping, an outfit, or heading out the door.
Literal reference to buying, packing, or carrying a bag on an outing.
Shorthand for grabbing your things together and finally heading out the door.
Before you send it: Use it as a simple accessory or errand signal — no adjustment needed by audience.
What 👜 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F45C, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
Where the 👜 Handbag 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+1F45C 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 E682, KDDI au E49C, SoftBank E323.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Handbag was approved as U+1F45C 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.