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🎩Top Hat Emoji
Unicode added 🎩 top hat in Unicode 6.0 (2010), filed under Objects → Clothing. Its codepoint is U+1F3A9, and it is tagged clothes, clothing and fancy.
What 🎩 top hat means
Fit checks, packing lists, dress codes and shopping hauls lean on this set, with 👑 and 💎 doing double duty as compliments rather than as literal jewellery. The billed cap 🧢 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 clothes, clothing and fancy and files it under Objects → Clothing.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F3A9 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🎩 | |
| HTML decimal | 🎩 | |
| CSS | \1F3A9 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F3A9} | |
| Python | \U0001F3A9 | |
| Java / C# | \uD83C\uDFA9 | |
| Rust | \u{1f3a9} | |
| Swift | \u{1F3A9} | |
| PHP | \u{1F3A9} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%8E%A9 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 8E A9 | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83C DFA9 | |
| Base64 | 8J+OqQ== | |
| Decimal | 127913 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 6.0 (2010) | |
Keywords
Appears in these collections
How to type 🎩
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “top hat”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “clothes”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f3a9and 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 🎩 top hat emoji mean?+
🎩 is the top hat emoji, tagged clothes, clothing and fancy. Fit checks, packing lists, dress codes and shopping hauls lean on this set, with 👑 and 💎 doing double duty as compliments rather than as literal jewellery. The billed cap 🧢 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 🎩?+
top hat is U+1F3A9. In HTML that is 🎩, in CSS \1F3A9, and in JavaScript \u{1F3A9}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🎩 emoji added?+
top hat got its emoji presentation in Unicode 6.0 (2010). 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 Clothing in Objects.
Added in Unicode 6.0 (2010)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🎩 top hat.