🩰Ballet Shoes Emoji
Generally, the 🩰 emoji means you’re thinking about ballet, dance, or something that’s graceful and beautiful. It’s often used to express admiration for ballet or a desire to dance.
The 🩰 emoji represents ballet shoes.
- Unicode
- U+1FA70
- Released
- 2019
- Shortcode
- :ballet_shoes:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🩰 Ballet Shoes emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 3.
Ballet Shoes emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1FA70 — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your ballet shoes looks like to the person on the other side.
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.
Ballet Shoes 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 :ballet_shoes:.
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+1FA70.
How to type the 🩰 Ballet Shoes emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
Ballet Shoes 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.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Ballet Shoes emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around ballet shoes 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 ballet shoes and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
What 🩰 means in other countries
Reads as literal dancewear in most chat, and doubles as a pink gender-reveal marker in Western baby-shower culture.
Literal pointe-shoe or ballet-flat reference used across the dance community.
Paired with pink to signal “it’s a girl”, alongside other color-coded icons.
Before you send it: Fine for dance talk; know that in baby-announcement contexts it can read as a gender cue.
What 🩰 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1FA70, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
🩰 vs 🧑🩰 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Ballet Shoes
Code: U+1FA70 · added 2019
Shortcode: :ballet_shoes:
Generally, the 🩰 emoji means you’re thinking about ballet, dance, or something that’s graceful and beautiful.
Unicode name: Ballet Dancer
Code: U+1F9D1 U+200D U+1FA70 · added 2025
Shortcode: :ballet-dancer:
A person in ballet pose wearing pointe shoes.
Where the 🩰 Ballet Shoes emoji came from
When it was approved, which release it landed in, and how long phones have had it.
Same character every time — U+1FA70 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.
Ballet Shoes was approved as U+1FA70 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.