🪀Yo-yo Emoji
Generally, the 🪀 emoji means a yo-yo. People use it to reference the toy, its tricks, or the feeling of nostalgia associated with playing with one.
The 🪀 emoji represents a yo-yo.
- Unicode
- U+1FA80
- Released
- 2019
- Shortcode
- :yo-yo:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🪀 Yo-yo emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 3 of them.
Yo-yo emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1FA80. 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.
Yo-yo emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :yo-yo:.
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+1FA80.
How to type the 🪀 Yo-yo emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
Yo-yo emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the yo-yo 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
Yo-yo emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around yo-yo 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
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
What 🪀 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1FA80, 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: Yo-yo
Code: U+1FA80 · added 2019
Shortcode: :yo-yo:
Generally, the 🪀 emoji means a yo-yo.
Unicode name: Love-you Gesture
Code: U+1F91F · added 2017
Shortcode: :i_love_you_hand_sign:
It generally means “I love you.
Where the 🪀 Yo-yo emoji came from
Approved as part of Emoji 12.0, the yo-yo has been on phones for years now — counting from its release, 7.
Same character every time — U+1FA80 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.
Yo-yo was approved as U+1FA80 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.