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๐งคGloves Emoji
Unicode added ๐งค gloves in Emoji 5.0 (2017), filed under Objects โ Clothing. Its codepoint is U+1F9E4, and it is tagged hand.
What ๐งค gloves means
Fit checks, packing lists, dress codes and shopping hauls lean on this set, with ๐ and ๐ doing double duty as compliments rather than as literal jewellery. The billed cap ๐งข arrived in 2017 with Emoji 5.0 and was later borrowed wholesale by English slang, where cap means a lie and no cap means the speaker is being straight with you.
Unicode tags this one hand and files it under Objects โ Clothing.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting โ most chat apps expand them as you type.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F9E4 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🧤 | |
| HTML decimal | 🧤 | |
| CSS | \1F9E4 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F9E4} | |
| Python | \U0001F9E4 | |
| Java / C# | \uD83E\uDDE4 | |
| Rust | \u{1f9e4} | |
| Swift | \u{1F9E4} | |
| PHP | \u{1F9E4} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%A7%A4 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A7 A4 | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83E DDE4 | |
| Base64 | 8J+npA== | |
| Decimal | 129508 | |
| Introduced | Emoji 5.0 (2017) | |
Keywords
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How to type ๐งค
- Windows โ press
Win + .and search โglovesโ. - macOS โ press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android โ switch to the emoji keyboard and type โhandโ.
- Linux โ press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f9e4and Enter. - HTML โ paste
🧤.
How ๐งค renders
The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.
- ๐งคApple
- ๐งคSegoe
- ๐งคNoto
- ๐งคSystem
Frequently asked questions
What does the ๐งค gloves emoji mean?+
๐งค is the gloves emoji, tagged hand. Fit checks, packing lists, dress codes and shopping hauls lean on this set, with ๐ and ๐ doing double duty as compliments rather than as literal jewellery. The billed cap ๐งข arrived in 2017 with Emoji 5.0 and was later borrowed wholesale by English slang, where cap means a lie and no cap means the speaker is being straight with you.
What is the Unicode code for ๐งค?+
gloves is U+1F9E4. In HTML that is 🧤, in CSS \1F9E4, and in JavaScript \u{1F9E4}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the ๐งค emoji added?+
gloves got its emoji presentation in Emoji 5.0 (2017). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all โ that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.
Related emojis
More emojis from Clothing in Objects.
Added in Emoji 5.0 (2017)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as ๐งค gloves.