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🧩Puzzle Piece Emoji
Unicode added 🧩 puzzle piece in Emoji 11.0 (2018), filed under Activities → Games & Hobbies. Its codepoint is U+1F9E9, and it is tagged clue, interlocking and jigsaw.
What 🧩 puzzle piece means
Games, toys and fortune-telling. 🎯 means you got something exactly right, 🎲 means chance, 🔮 covers predictions and manifesting posts, and 🧸 signals softness or nostalgia. The notable rendering story is 🔫: between 2016 and 2018 every major platform replaced its realistic pistol with a toy water gun, and the current CLDR name is water pistol.
Unicode tags this one clue, interlocking and jigsaw and files it under Activities → Games & Hobbies.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F9E9 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🧩 | |
| HTML decimal | 🧩 | |
| CSS | \1F9E9 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F9E9} | |
| Python | \U0001F9E9 | |
| Java / C# | \uD83E\uDDE9 | |
| Rust | \u{1f9e9} | |
| Swift | \u{1F9E9} | |
| PHP | \u{1F9E9} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%A7%A9 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A7 A9 | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83E DDE9 | |
| Base64 | 8J+nqQ== | |
| Decimal | 129513 | |
| Introduced | Emoji 11.0 (2018) | |
Keywords
- clue
- interlocking
- jigsaw
- piece
- puzzle
How to type 🧩
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “puzzle piece”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “clue”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f9e9and Enter. - HTML — paste
🧩.
How 🧩 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.
- 🧩Apple
- 🧩Segoe
- 🧩Noto
- 🧩System
Frequently asked questions
What does the 🧩 puzzle piece emoji mean?+
🧩 is the puzzle piece emoji, tagged clue, interlocking and jigsaw. Games, toys and fortune-telling. 🎯 means you got something exactly right, 🎲 means chance, 🔮 covers predictions and manifesting posts, and 🧸 signals softness or nostalgia. The notable rendering story is 🔫: between 2016 and 2018 every major platform replaced its realistic pistol with a toy water gun, and the current CLDR name is water pistol.
What is the Unicode code for 🧩?+
puzzle piece is U+1F9E9. In HTML that is 🧩, in CSS \1F9E9, and in JavaScript \u{1F9E9}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🧩 emoji added?+
puzzle piece got its emoji presentation in Emoji 11.0 (2018). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.
Related emojis
More emojis from Games & Hobbies in Activities.
Added in Emoji 11.0 (2018)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🧩 puzzle piece.