🪞Mirror Emoji
Generally, the 🪞 emoji just means “mirror. ” People use it to talk about reflections or to point out someone’s appearance.
The 🪞 emoji represents a mirror.
- Unicode
- U+1FA9E
- Released
- 2020
- Shortcode
- :mirror:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🪞 Mirror emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
Mirror emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the mirror 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.
Mirror emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :mirror:.
In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the mirror, code point U+1FA9E.
How to type the 🪞 Mirror emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
Mirror 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
Mirror emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around mirror 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 mirror and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
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.
🪞 vs 🪩 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Mirror
Code: U+1FA9E · added 2020
Shortcode: :mirror:
Generally, the 🪞 emoji just means “mirror.
Unicode name: Mirror Ball
Code: U+1FAA9 · added 2021
Shortcode: :mirror_ball:
Generally, the mirror ball emoji means “let’s party!
Where the 🪞 Mirror emoji came from
It arrived with the 13.0 release of the standard, which dates the mirror to 2020.
Same character every time — U+1FA9E 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.
Mirror was approved as U+1FA9E 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.