🪝Hook Emoji
Generally, the 🪝 emoji is used to represent catching something, literally or figuratively. It’s a lighthearted way to express getting something you wanted or that you've successfully obtained.
The 🪝 emoji represents a decorative hook, often a small, curved metal one.
- Unicode
- U+1FA9D
- Released
- 2020
- Shortcode
- :hook:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🪝 Hook emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 6 of them.
Hook emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the hook as 9 vendors ship it.
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.
Hook 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 :hook:.
In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the hook, code point U+1FA9D.
How to type the 🪝 Hook emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
Hook emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the hook 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
Hook emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around hook 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
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
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 🪝 Hook emoji came from
It arrived with the 13.0 release of the standard, which dates the hook to 2020.
Same character every time — U+1FA9D 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.
Hook was approved as U+1FA9D 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.