🕳Hole Emoji
Generally, the 🕳 emoji means a hole, a gap, or something missing. It can express sadness, loss, or even a bit of playful emptiness depending on the context of the conversation.
The 🕳 emoji represents a little stone or pebble that looks like a small hole.
- Unicode
- U+1F573
- Released
- 2014
- Shortcode
- :hole:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🕳 Hole emoji mean?
Hole emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F573 — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your hole looks like to the person on the other side.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
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.
Hole 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 :hole:.
In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F573.
How to type the 🕳 Hole emoji
No picker to hand? The hole can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
Hole emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the hole as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 8 of them.
Hole emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around hole 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 hole and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
What 🕳 means in other countries
The literal hole has picked up a crude sexual reading in slang, alongside unrelated “stuck in a hole” financial talk.
Can be read as a sexual reference depending on the rest of the conversation.
“In a hole” means being stuck or in debt, no sexual meaning implied.
Before you send it: Ambiguous enough to misfire in mixed company; a plain circle or void emoji reads more clearly if you mean the literal hole.
What 🕳 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the hole 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: Hole
Code: U+1F573 · added 2014
Shortcode: :hole:
Generally, the 🕳 emoji means a hole, a gap, or something missing.
Unicode name: Flag in Hole
Code: U+26F3 · added 2010
Shortcode: :golf:
Generally, the ⛳ emoji simply means golf.
Where the 🕳 Hole emoji came from
It arrived with the 0.7 release of the standard, which dates the hole to 2014.
Same character every time — U+1F573 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.
Hole was approved as U+1F573 and shipped in Emoji 0.7 (2014). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 🕳 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.