🪗Accordion Emoji
Generally, when someone uses the 🪗 emoji, they’re just referencing a fun, festive image. It’s often used to express excitement or a feeling of celebration without needing a long explanation.
The 🪗 emoji represents a traditional folk dancing shoe, specifically one with a little bell attached – often called a jester’s shoe or a clog.
- Unicode
- U+1FA97
- Released
- 2020
- Shortcode
- :accordion:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🪗 Accordion emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 6 of them.
Accordion emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1FA97 — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your accordion 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.
Accordion emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :accordion:.
In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1FA97.
How to type the 🪗 Accordion emoji
No picker to hand? The accordion can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
Accordion 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
Accordion emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around accordion 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+1FA97, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
Emojis similar to the Accordion emoji
Same family (musical-instrument) — often confused with accordion or used alongside it.
Harp
🩸Drop Of Blood
Collections 🪗 belongs to — every one of them is a different way people go looking for it:
Where the 🪗 Accordion emoji came from
It arrived with the 13.0 release of the standard, which dates the accordion to 2020.
Same character every time — U+1FA97 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.
Accordion was approved as U+1FA97 and shipped in Emoji 13.0 (2020). 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.