Symbols · Emoji 1.0
➿Double Curly Loop Emoji
Basically, it’s just a cute little swirl. People use it to show they're feeling excited or just want to add a bit of flair to their message.
The ➿ emoji, often called the “double curly loop” or “spiral,” looks like a swirl or a small, decorative loop.
- Unicode
- U+27BF
- Released
- 2015
- Shortcode
- :loop:
- Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the ➿ Double Curly Loop emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 4 of them.
02 — Platforms
Double Curly Loop emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the double curly loop has been drawn in 3 ways.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Double Curly Loop emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :loop:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+27BF.
04 — How to type
How to type the ➿ Double Curly Loop emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
05 — Download
Double Curly Loop emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the double curly loop 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
06 — Combinations
Double Curly Loop emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around double curly loop 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 double curly loop and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
08 — Around the world
What ➿ means in other countries
A rarely used double loop originally tied to cassette-tape or video-message length icons, now mostly forgotten in meaning.
Used sparingly, mostly as an odd or “tangled” squiggle reaction.
Originally referenced tape length for voicemail or video messages.
Reads as an unfamiliar symbol to most people, without any strong connotation.
Before you send it: Expect most people not to recognize any specific meaning behind it — use it sparingly.
09 — Apps
What ➿ means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+27BF, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
10 — Related
Emojis similar to the Double Curly Loop emoji
Same family (other-symbol) — often confused with double curly loop or used alongside it.
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❇️Sparkle
Collections ➿ belongs to — every one of them is a different way people go looking for it:
11 — Difference
➿ vs ‼️ — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Double Curly Loop
Code: U+27BF · added 2015
Shortcode: :loop:
Basically, it’s just a cute little swirl.
Unicode name: Double Exclamation Mark
Code: U+203C U+FE0F · added 2010
Shortcode: :bangbang:
Basically, it means “pay attention!”
12 — History
Where the ➿ Double Curly Loop 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 2015.
Same character every time — U+27BF 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 E6DF, SoftBank E211.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Double Curly Loop was approved as U+27BF and shipped in Emoji 1.0 (2015). 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.
13 — FAQ