Objects · Emoji 0.7
🗳️Ballot Box with Ballot Emoji
Generally, when someone sends you the 🗳️ emoji, they’re talking about voting, elections, or anything related to making a choice or expressing a preference. It's a quick way to signal a political discussion or a decision being made.
The 🗳️ emoji is a ballot box.
- Unicode
- U+1F5F3 U+FE0F
- Released
- 2014
- Shortcode
- :ballot_
box_ with_ ballot: - Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🗳️ Ballot Box with Ballot emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 2.
02 — Platforms
Ballot Box with Ballot emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F5F3 — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your ballot box with ballot looks like to the person on the other side.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Ballot Box with Ballot emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :ballot_box_with_ballot:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the ballot box with ballot, code point U+1F5F3.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🗳️ Ballot Box with Ballot emoji
No picker to hand? The ballot box with ballot can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
05 — Download
Ballot Box with Ballot emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the ballot box with ballot as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 8 of them.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Microsoft
06 — Combinations
Ballot Box with Ballot emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around ballot box with ballot for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
All combinations →Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that for every pair Google has drawn, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
07 — In conversation
What 🗳️ means from a girl or a guy
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
08 — Apps
What 🗳️ means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F5F3, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
10 — History
Where the 🗳️ Ballot Box with Ballot emoji came from
Approved as part of Emoji 0.7, the ballot box with ballot has been on phones for years now — counting from its release, 12.
Same character every time — U+1F5F3 U+FE0F 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.
Ballot Box with Ballot was approved as U+1F5F3 U+FE0F 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.
11 — FAQ