👰Person with Veil Emoji
Generally, it means someone is getting married or is associated with weddings. People use it to express excitement or share news about a wedding.
The 👰 emoji is a bride emoji.
- Unicode
- U+1F470
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :bride_with_veil:
- Skin tones
- Yes
What does the 👰 Person with Veil emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 3 of them.
Person with Veil emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F470 — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your person with veil looks like to the person on the other side.
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.
Person with Veil emoji skin tones
👰 supports all five Fitzpatrick skin tone modifiers. Each one is a separate character sequence — tap any to copy it.
Person with Veil 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 :bride_with_veil:.
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+1F470.
How to type the 👰 Person with Veil emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
Person with Veil 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
Person with Veil emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around person with veil 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
Ambiguous by design — reads as “the bride” by default, though the plain veil has occasionally been misread as headwear.
overwhelmingly read as the bride, which is the intended meaning almost everywhere it’s used
with no other cues around it, some readers pause over whether it’s about marriage or modest dress
works as the same lighthearted “marriage tease” that the gendered version carries
Before you send it: Clear enough in a wedding thread; elsewhere, pair it with something explicit so it isn’t misread by accident.
What 👰 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the person with veil 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: Person with Veil
Code: U+1F470 · added 2010
Shortcode: :bride_with_veil:
Generally, it means someone is getting married or is associated with weddings.
Unicode name: Person in Tuxedo
Code: U+1F935 · added 2016
Shortcode: :person_in_tuxedo:
Generally, the 🤵 emoji means you're feeling like a gentleman or that something is formal and stylish.
Where the 👰 Person with Veil 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+1F470 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 EAE9.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Person with Veil was approved as U+1F470 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.