Symbols · Emoji 0.6
➕Plus Emoji
Generally, when someone sends you the plus sign emoji, they mean they want to add something – like a suggestion, an idea, or just to show they’re agreeing with you and want to expand on the topic. It’s a simple way to say “let’s do more” or “plus!”
The plus sign emoji (➕) basically means “more” or “add.”
- Unicode
- U+2795
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :heavy_
plus_ sign: - Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the ➕ Plus emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 1.
People also look for it as plus emoji.
02 — Platforms
Plus emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the plus 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
Plus emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :heavy_plus_sign:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+2795.
04 — How to type
How to type the ➕ Plus emoji
No picker to hand? The plus can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
05 — Download
Plus emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the plus as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
Microsoft
06 — Combinations
Plus emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around plus 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
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
08 — Apps
What ➕ means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the plus lands changes how it is taken.
10 — History
Where the ➕ Plus 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+2795 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
KDDI au E53C.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Plus was approved as U+2795 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.
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