Symbols · Emoji 0.6
♈️Aries Emoji
Generally, the Aries emoji simply represents the zodiac sign Aries. It’s used to identify someone’s astrological sign or to express traits associated with it, like being bold or energetic.
The Aries emoji ♈️ is a symbol of the first sign of the zodiac, Aries.
- Unicode
- U+2648 U+FE0F
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :aries:
- Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the ♈️ Aries emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 3.
02 — Platforms
Aries emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the aries as 9 vendors ship it.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Aries 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 :aries:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the aries, code point U+2648.
04 — How to type
How to type the ♈️ Aries emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
05 — Download
Aries 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.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
Microsoft
06 — Combinations
Aries emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around aries for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
All combinations →Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that for every pair Google has drawn, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
07 — In conversation
What ♈️ means from a girl or a guy
Who sent the aries and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
08 — Around the world
What ♈️ means in other countries
Aries is a standard Western zodiac symbol for the fire sign covering late March to late April.
Shorthand for a fire-sign personality read as bold or impulsive by astrology followers.
Common self-identifier alongside birth month for people who follow horoscopes.
Reads as an unfamiliar symbol with no clear meaning to people who don’t follow star signs.
Before you send it: Works well among astrology-literate friends, but can look like noise to people who don’t track signs.
09 — Apps
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.
11 — History
Where the ♈️ Aries emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time — U+2648 U+FE0F 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.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
♈️ existed there as
NTT DoCoMo E646, KDDI au E48F, SoftBank E23F.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Aries was approved as U+2648 U+FE0F and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
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.
12 — FAQ