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๐งฆSocks Emoji
Tagged stocking, ๐งฆ socks sits in Unicode's Clothing group inside Objects. It was introduced in Emoji 5.0 (2017) at U+1F9E6.
What ๐งฆ socks 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 stocking 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+1F9E6 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🧦 | |
| HTML decimal | 🧦 | |
| CSS | \1F9E6 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F9E6} | |
| Python | \U0001F9E6 | |
| Java / C# | \uD83E\uDDE6 | |
| Rust | \u{1f9e6} | |
| Swift | \u{1F9E6} | |
| PHP | \u{1F9E6} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%A7%A6 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A7 A6 | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83E DDE6 | |
| Base64 | 8J+npg== | |
| Decimal | 129510 | |
| Introduced | Emoji 5.0 (2017) | |
Keywords
- stocking
Appears in these collections
How to type ๐งฆ
- Windows โ press
Win + .and search โsocksโ. - macOS โ press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android โ switch to the emoji keyboard and type โstockingโ.
- Linux โ press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f9e6and Enter. - HTML โ paste
🧦.
How ๐งฆ 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.
- ๐งฆApple
- ๐งฆSegoe
- ๐งฆNoto
- ๐งฆSystem
Frequently asked questions
What does the ๐งฆ socks emoji mean?+
๐งฆ is the socks emoji, tagged stocking. 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 ๐งฆ?+
socks is U+1F9E6. In HTML that is 🧦, in CSS \1F9E6, and in JavaScript \u{1F9E6}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the ๐งฆ emoji added?+
socks 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 ๐งฆ socks.