๐Battery Emoji
Generally, the ๐ emoji means a battery or low power. People use it to indicate their phone is running out of battery or to talk about charging things.
The ๐ emoji represents a battery.
- Unicode
- U+1F50B
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :battery:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the ๐ Battery emoji mean?
Battery emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the battery has been drawn in 3 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 โ iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Battery 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 :battery:.
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+1F50B.
How to type the ๐ Battery emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system โ and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
Battery emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the battery as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Battery emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around battery 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.
Battery Emoji Kitchen stickers
Mixed with other emojis by Google's Kitchen โ 14 of those stickers exist for the battery. Tap any to open it full size.
What ๐ means from a girl or a guy
Who sent the battery and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
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.
๐ vs ๐ชซ โ what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Battery
Code: U+1F50B ยท added 2010
Shortcode: :battery:
Generally, the ๐ emoji means a battery or low power.
Unicode name: Low Battery
Code: U+1FAAB ยท added 2021
Shortcode: :low_battery:
Basically, it just means โlow battery.
Where the ๐ Battery 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+1F50B 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 E584.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all โ Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Battery was approved as U+1F50B 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.