Yarn emoji 🧶
Emoji 11.0 (2018) · U+1F9F6
What 🧶 means
The keywords Unicode lists for 🧶 are ball, crochet, knit. They show what people use it for.
Search for ball or crochet on your emoji keyboard and 🧶 is among the results.
You will find 🧶 among the arts and crafts (7 emoji), part of activities with 85 emoji in all. Its neighbours include 🪢 🎭 🖼️ 🎨.
Will 🧶 show on my friend's phone?
Emoji 11.0 brought 🧶 in 2018. Most phones show it now; only devices that have not been updated for years miss it.
How to type 🧶
Search for yarn in the emoji picker of your phone or computer to find 🧶.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type yarn.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type yarn in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type yarn.
Codes for developers
Under the hood, 🧶 is one code point (U+1F9F6), 4 bytes in UTF-8 and 2 UTF-16 units, which is what a JavaScript length check counts.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1F9F6 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🧶 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🧶 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F9F6"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F9F6} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%A7%B6 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A7 B6 |
Names in other languages
The CLDR name of 🧶 in the 12 languages of this site. Each links to that language's page.
| Language | Name |
|---|---|
| English | yarn |
| Português | novelo |
| Español | ovillo |
| Italiano | gomitolo |
| Français | fil |
| Deutsch | Wollknäuel |
| Türkçe | iplik yumağı |
| Bahasa Indonesia | gulungan benang |
| Polski | włóczka |
| Русский | клубок |
| 日本語 | 毛糸 |
| 한국어 | 실뭉치 |
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What does the yarn emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🧶 "yarn" and links it with ball, crochet, knit. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the arts and crafts subgroup of activities.
When was the yarn emoji added?
In Emoji 11.0, released in 2018. Phones updated since about 2019 show it.
How do I type the yarn emoji?
Search for yarn in the emoji picker of your phone or computer to find 🧶.