Objects · Emoji 5.0
🧥Coat Emoji
Generally, the 🧥 emoji just means a coat or jacket. It’s used to indicate someone is cold, wearing outerwear, or referencing a coat in a conversation.
The 🧥 emoji represents a coat or jacket.
- Unicode
- U+1F9E5
- Released
- 2017
- Shortcode
- :coat:
- Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🧥 Coat emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 4.
02 — Platforms
Coat emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F9E5. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 9.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Coat 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 :coat:.
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+1F9E5.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🧥 Coat emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
05 — Download
Coat emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the coat as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
Microsoft
WhatsApp
06 — Combinations
Coat emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around coat 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
Who sent the coat and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
08 — Around the world
What 🧥 means in other countries
Straightforward cold-weather outerwear everywhere, with no competing cultural meaning attached to the emoji itself.
Signals cold weather, layering up, or simply that the season has turned colder.
Can imply a smart overcoat for a formal occasion rather than a casual everyday jacket.
Before you send it: Use it as-is for weather or outfit talk; there’s nothing to adjust for different audiences.
09 — Apps
What 🧥 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F9E5, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
11 — Difference
🧥 vs 🥼 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Coat
Code: U+1F9E5 · added 2017
Shortcode: :coat:
Generally, the 🧥 emoji just means a coat or jacket.
Unicode name: Lab Coat
Code: U+1F97C · added 2018
Shortcode: :lab_coat:
Generally, the 🥼 emoji means “scientist” or “doctor.”
12 — History
Where the 🧥 Coat emoji came from
It arrived with the 5.0 release of the standard, which dates the coat to 2017.
Same character every time — U+1F9E5 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.
Coat was approved as U+1F9E5 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.
13 — FAQ