Socks emoji 🧦
Emoji 5.0 (2017) · U+1F9E6
What 🧦 means
In Unicode's CLDR data, Socks 🧦 is tagged with these keywords: stocking.
Phone keyboards use the same keywords, so typing stocking or socks in the emoji search brings up 🧦.
Socks 🧦 is one of 47 emoji in the clothing subgroup of objects (268 emoji), next to 👗 👘 🥻 🩱.
Will 🧦 show on my friend's phone?
🧦 was added in Emoji 5.0 (2017). Phones updated in the last few years show it; a very old phone may show a box instead.
How to type 🧦
Any emoji picker finds 🧦 when you search for socks.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type socks.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type socks in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type socks.
Codes for developers
Socks 🧦 is a single code point, U+1F9E6. In UTF-8 it takes 4 bytes, and in JavaScript its string length is 2.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1F9E6 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🧦 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🧦 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F9E6"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F9E6} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%A7%A6 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A7 A6 |
Names in other languages
The CLDR name of 🧦 in the 12 languages of this site. Each links to that language's page.
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What does the socks emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🧦 "socks" and links it with stocking. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the clothing subgroup of objects.
When was the socks emoji added?
In Emoji 5.0, released in 2017. Phones updated since about 2018 show it.
How do I type the socks emoji?
Any emoji picker finds 🧦 when you search for socks.