🛍️Shopping Bags Emoji
It generally means “shopping” or “buying. ” People use it to indicate they’re talking about purchasing items or going to a store.
The 🛍 emoji is a shopping bag.
- Unicode
- U+1F6CD U+FE0F
- Released
- 2014
- Shortcode
- :shopping_bags:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🛍️ Shopping Bags emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
Shopping Bags emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F6CD — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your shopping bags looks like to the person on the other side.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Facebook, Messenger
Galaxy, One UI
Windows, Teams, Fluent
WhatsApp on Android
Slack, Discord themes
Open-source, design systems
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Shopping Bags emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :shopping_bags:.
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+1F6CD.
How to type the 🛍️ Shopping Bags emoji
No picker to hand? The shopping bags can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
Shopping Bags emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the shopping bags 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
Shopping Bags emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around shopping bags 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.
Shopping Bags Emoji Kitchen stickers
Google's sticker mixer already has this one paired up, and the ready-made combinations number 14. Tap any to open it full size.
What 🛍️ means from a girl or a guy
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
What 🛍️ means in other countries
A neutral consumerism icon, reading as anything from a mall run to a duty-free spree depending on context.
Ties strongly to Black Friday and other big sale-season shopping events.
Often means duty-free or souvenir shopping rather than everyday errands.
Before you send it: No cultural caveats to worry about; use it for any shopping-related update or haul.
What 🛍️ means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the shopping bags 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: Shopping Bags
Code: U+1F6CD U+FE0F · added 2014
Shortcode: :shopping_bags:
It generally means “shopping” or “buying.
Unicode name: Shopping Cart
Code: U+1F6D2 · added 2016
Shortcode: :shopping_trolley:
Usually, it just means shopping!
Where the 🛍️ Shopping Bags emoji came from
When it was approved, which release it landed in, and how long phones have had it.
Shopping Bags was approved as U+1F6CD 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, Facebook, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels, OpenMoji. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.