People & Body · Emoji 11.0
🦷Tooth Emoji
Generally, the 🦷 emoji means a tooth. It’s often used to talk about dental care or a smile.
The 🦷 emoji represents a tooth.
- Unicode
- U+1F9B7
- Released
- 2018
- Shortcode
- :tooth:
- Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🦷 Tooth emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
02 — Platforms
Tooth emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the tooth has been drawn in 3 ways.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Tooth emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :tooth:.
All emoji copy and paste →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+1F9B7.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🦷 Tooth emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F9B7 when there is no key at all.
05 — Download
Tooth 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.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
Microsoft
WhatsApp
JoyPixels
06 — Combinations
Tooth emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around tooth 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 with 🦷, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
08 — In conversation
What 🦷 means from a girl or a guy
Who sent the tooth and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
09 — Around the world
What 🦷 means in other countries
A plain literal reference to teeth or dental topics, with light slang use that never risks real misreading.
dentist visits, tooth pain, or losing a tooth, taken at face value
“sweet tooth” cravings, a playful nod to dessert or sugar habits
Before you send it: Reads fine in any tone; the sentence around it settles whether it’s literal or a “sweet tooth” joke.
10 — Apps
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.
12 — Difference
🦷 vs 🪥 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Tooth
Code: U+1F9B7 · added 2018
Shortcode: :tooth:
Generally, the 🦷 emoji means a tooth.
Unicode name: Toothbrush
Code: U+1FAA5 · added 2020
Shortcode: :toothbrush:
Generally, the 🪥 emoji just means a toothbrush.
13 — History
Where the 🦷 Tooth emoji came from
It arrived with the 11.0 release of the standard, which dates the tooth to 2018.
Same character every time — U+1F9B7 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.
Tooth was approved as U+1F9B7 and shipped in Emoji 11.0 (2018). 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.
14 — FAQ