🥻Sari Emoji
Basically, it’s just a visual way to represent a sari. People use it when they want to talk about Indian clothing or culture.
The 🥻 emoji represents a sari, a traditional Indian garment.
- Unicode
- U+1F97B
- Released
- 2019
- Shortcode
- :sari:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🥻 Sari emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 2 of them.
Sari emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the sari as 9 vendors ship it.
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.
Sari emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :sari:.
In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F97B.
How to type the 🥻 Sari emoji
No picker to hand? The sari can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
Sari emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the sari 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
Sari emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around sari 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 sari and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
What 🥻 means in other countries
A specific South Asian garment with deep everyday and ceremonial meaning, not a stand-in for “exotic dress” in general.
Everyday and ceremonial garment carrying regional and personal identity, not costume.
Sometimes framed as a passing “exotic” trend, which can read as appropriation.
Often used with visible pride around festivals, weddings, and other family events.
Before you send it: Fine when the context is actually South Asian; avoid using it as generic shorthand for “foreign dress”.
What 🥻 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F97B, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
Where the 🥻 Sari emoji came from
It arrived with the 12.0 release of the standard, which dates the sari to 2019.
Same character every time — U+1F97B 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.
Sari was approved as U+1F97B and shipped in Emoji 12.0 (2019). 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.