💼Briefcase Emoji
It generally means work or business. People use it to represent a professional setting or a task related to their job.
The 💼 emoji is a briefcase.
- Unicode
- U+1F4BC
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :briefcase:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 💼 Briefcase emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 1 of them.
Briefcase emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the briefcase 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.
Briefcase emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :briefcase:.
In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F4BC.
How to type the 💼 Briefcase emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
Briefcase emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the briefcase 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
Briefcase emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around briefcase 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 briefcase and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
What 💼 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F4BC, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
Where the 💼 Briefcase 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+1F4BC 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 E5CE, SoftBank E11E.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Briefcase was approved as U+1F4BC 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.