🥈2nd Place Medal Emoji
Generally, it means someone achieved second place or is congratulating someone on being runner-up. It's a visual way to say "well done for coming in second!
The 🥈 emoji represents a silver medal.
- Unicode
- U+1F948
- Released
- 2016
- Shortcode
- :second_place_medal:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🥈 2nd Place Medal emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 5 of them.
2nd Place Medal emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F948. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 9.
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.
2nd Place Medal emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :second_place_medal:.
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+1F948.
How to type the 🥈 2nd Place Medal emoji
No picker to hand? The 2nd place medal can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
2nd Place Medal emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 9. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
2nd Place Medal emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around 2nd place medal 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
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
What 🥈 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.
🥈 vs 🥇 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: 2nd Place Medal
Code: U+1F948 · added 2016
Shortcode: :second_place_medal:
Generally, it means someone achieved second place or is congratulating someone on being runner-up.
Unicode name: 1st Place Medal
Code: U+1F947 · added 2016
Shortcode: :first_place_medal:
Means someone came in first or is the best at something.
Where the 🥈 2nd Place Medal emoji came from
Approved as part of Emoji 3.0, the 2nd place medal has been on phones for years now — counting from its release, 10.
Same character every time — U+1F948 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.
2nd Place Medal was approved as U+1F948 and shipped in Emoji 3.0 (2016). 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, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.