🪭Folding Hand Fan Emoji
Generally, it means "cool" or "let’s relax. " People use it to indicate they’re hot, want a cool drink, or just want a moment of peace.
The 🪭 emoji is a folding hand fan.
- Unicode
- U+1FAAD
- Released
- 2022
- Shortcode
- :folding_hand_fan:
- Skin tones
- No
⚠️ Added in Emoji 15.0. On phones older than iOS 17 / Android 14 it arrives as an empty box — the character exists, the artwork does not.
What does the 🪭 Folding Hand Fan emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
People also look for it as shy emoji, fan emoji.
Folding Hand Fan emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1FAAD. 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.
Folding Hand Fan 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 :folding_hand_fan:.
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+1FAAD.
How to type the 🪭 Folding Hand Fan emoji
No picker to hand? The folding hand fan can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
Folding Hand Fan emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the folding hand fan 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
Folding Hand Fan emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around folding hand fan 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 folding hand fan and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
What 🪭 means in other countries
Mostly decorative today, but it echoes a real historic flirtation code and still carries a 'dramatic reaction' meaning in some online circles.
The abanico fan-language once let people signal romantic messages through fan positions.
The fan is a core prop in classical dance and opera, tied to elegance rather than flirtation.
"Fanning" is used for dramatic shade or reacting to gossip.
Before you send it: Fine as a stylish or dramatic-reaction emoji; the flirtation-code meaning is mostly historical trivia now.
What 🪭 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the folding hand fan lands changes how it is taken.
Where the 🪭 Folding Hand Fan emoji came from
When it was approved, which release it landed in, and how long phones have had it.
Same character every time — U+1FAAD 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.
Folding Hand Fan was approved as U+1FAAD and shipped in Emoji 15.0 (2022). 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.