Symbols · Emoji 0.6
♎️Libra Emoji
Generally, the Libra emoji means “balance” or “fairness.” It’s often used to show that someone wants things to be equal or to represent the Libra zodiac sign.
The ♎️ emoji is the Scales.
- Unicode
- U+264E U+FE0F
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :libra:
- Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the ♎️ Libra emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 5 of them.
02 — Platforms
Libra emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+264E. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 9.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Libra emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :libra:.
All emoji copy and paste →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+264E.
04 — How to type
How to type the ♎️ Libra emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
05 — Download
Libra 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
Libra emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around libra 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
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
08 — Around the world
What ♎️ means in other countries
Libra marks the air sign for late September to late October, tied to balance and fairness themes in astrology.
Represented by scales, read as diplomatic or indecisive in trait discussions.
Common shorthand for birth month among people who follow astrology closely.
Occasionally borrowed loosely for “balance” outside any astrology context.
Before you send it: Great for astrology-savvy chats; it can look like a random scale icon to anyone else.
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 ♎️ Libra 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+264E 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 E64C, KDDI au E495, SoftBank E245.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Libra was approved as U+264E 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