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🧵Thread Emoji
🧵 thread — U+1F9F5, added in Emoji 11.0 (2018). Unicode groups it with the other 7 arts & crafts emojis under Activities.
What 🧵 thread means
A small mixed set covering making things. 🎨 stands for creative work generally, 🖼️ for finished art, 🎭 for drama in the gossip sense as much as theatre. The crafting half — 🧵, 🧶, 🪡, 🪢 — has an odd second life: 🧵 is the standard marker for a multi-post thread on social platforms, which has nothing to do with sewing.
Unicode tags this one needle, sewing and spool and files it under Activities → Arts & Crafts.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F9F5 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🧵 | |
| HTML decimal | 🧵 | |
| CSS | \1F9F5 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F9F5} | |
| Python | \U0001F9F5 | |
| Java / C# | \uD83E\uDDF5 | |
| Rust | \u{1f9f5} | |
| Swift | \u{1F9F5} | |
| PHP | \u{1F9F5} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%A7%B5 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A7 B5 | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83E DDF5 | |
| Base64 | 8J+ntQ== | |
| Decimal | 129525 | |
| Introduced | Emoji 11.0 (2018) | |
Keywords
- needle
- sewing
- spool
- string
How to type 🧵
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “thread”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “needle”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f9f5and 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 🧵 thread emoji mean?+
🧵 is the thread emoji, tagged needle, sewing and spool. A small mixed set covering making things. 🎨 stands for creative work generally, 🖼️ for finished art, 🎭 for drama in the gossip sense as much as theatre. The crafting half — 🧵, 🧶, 🪡, 🪢 — has an odd second life: 🧵 is the standard marker for a multi-post thread on social platforms, which has nothing to do with sewing.
What is the Unicode code for 🧵?+
thread is U+1F9F5. In HTML that is 🧵, in CSS \1F9F5, and in JavaScript \u{1F9F5}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🧵 emoji added?+
thread 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 Arts & Crafts in Activities.
Added in Emoji 11.0 (2018)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🧵 thread.