🩳Shorts Emoji
Generally, the 🩳 emoji just means shorts. People use it to point out they’re wearing them or to talk about shorts in a general sense.
The 🩳 emoji represents men’s shorts.
- Unicode
- U+1FA73
- Released
- 2019
- Shortcode
- :shorts:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🩳 Shorts emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 5 of them.
Shorts emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1FA73. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 9.
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.
Shorts 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 :shorts:.
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+1FA73.
How to type the 🩳 Shorts emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
Shorts emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the shorts 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
Shorts emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around shorts 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 shorts and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
What 🩳 means in other countries
Plain casual or athletic wear reference, with no meaningful cultural variation in how it’s read.
Signals warm weather, a relaxed dress code, or simply summer plans in general.
Athletic-wear reference for running, the gym, or casual sports and games.
Before you send it: Use it freely for summer or workout talk — there’s nothing here worth second-guessing.
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.
Where the 🩳 Shorts emoji came from
It arrived with the 12.0 release of the standard, which dates the shorts to 2019.
Same character every time — U+1FA73 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.
Shorts was approved as U+1FA73 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.