🥉3rd Place Medal Emoji
Generally, when someone sends you the 🥉 emoji, they're congratulating you on coming in third place or acknowledging a good achievement, even if it wasn’t the best. It’s a way of saying “good job!
The 🥉 emoji represents a bronze medal.
- Unicode
- U+1F949
- Released
- 2016
- Shortcode
- :third_place_medal:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🥉 3rd Place Medal emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
3rd Place Medal emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the 3rd place medal 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 — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
3rd Place Medal 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 :third_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+1F949.
How to type the 🥉 3rd Place Medal emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
3rd Place Medal emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the 3rd place medal 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
3rd Place Medal emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around 3rd 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
Who sent the 3rd place medal and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
What 🥉 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the 3rd place medal 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: 3rd Place Medal
Code: U+1F949 · added 2016
Shortcode: :third_place_medal:
Generally, when someone sends you the 🥉 emoji, they're congratulating you on coming in third place or acknowledging a good achievement, even if it wasn’t the best.
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 🥉 3rd Place Medal emoji came from
It arrived with the 3.0 release of the standard, which dates the 3rd place medal to 2016.
Same character every time — U+1F949 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.
3rd Place Medal was approved as U+1F949 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.