Objects · Emoji 5.0
🧤Gloves Emoji
Generally, the 🧤 emoji just means gloves. It’s a visual way to represent the item itself, like saying “I’m cold” or “let’s get gloves.”
The 🧤 emoji represents a pair of gloves.
- Unicode
- U+1F9E4
- Released
- 2017
- Shortcode
- :gloves:
- Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🧤 Gloves emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
02 — Platforms
Gloves emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the gloves 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
Gloves emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :gloves:.
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+1F9E4.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🧤 Gloves emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
05 — Download
Gloves 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
06 — Combinations
Gloves emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around gloves 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 for every pair Google has drawn, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
07 — In conversation
What 🧤 means from a girl or a guy
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
08 — Around the world
What 🧤 means in other countries
Reads differently depending on context — sport, hygiene, or fashion — but none of those readings clash across cultures.
Boxing, cycling, or winter-sport gear reference depending on the rest of the message.
PPE or cleanliness reminder, a habit that became far more common worldwide since 2020.
Opera gloves or formalwear elegance, less common but understood.
Before you send it: Context makes the meaning obvious, so it’s safe to use without extra explanation.
09 — Apps
What 🧤 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the gloves lands changes how it is taken.
11 — History
Where the 🧤 Gloves emoji came from
Approved as part of Emoji 5.0, the gloves has been on phones for years now — counting from its release, 9.
Same character every time — U+1F9E4 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.
Gloves was approved as U+1F9E4 and shipped in Emoji 5.0 (2017). 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.
12 — FAQ