Trophy & Award Emoji

🏆 Trophy means a win. It is the emoji for coming first, finishing a season, closing a deal, or any result that deserves a cup on the shelf, and it reads the same in every language. On its own it can replace the whole sentence: a friend posts a race time, you reply 🏆. Next to a number it names the achievement: 🏆 3 means the third title, 10 🏆 a tenth win.

People also search what the trophy emoji means from a guy or a girl. In texting it usually means "you're a win" or "you're a prize": a compliment, sometimes a flirty one, and in sports banter a half-joking "you're my trophy". Paired with another emoji it names the competition: ⚽🏆 is a cup final or the World Cup, 🌍🏆 a world champion, 🎮🏆 a tournament or an in-game achievement. Discord servers hand out 🏆 as a reaction for the best post of the day, and in gaming chats it stands for the achievement system itself.

Three more emoji carry the "winner" idea on their own. 👑 Crown says someone is the best at what they do ("queen", "king", "slay" all travel with it; the Crown Emoji collection goes deeper). 💯 Hundred Points is the perfect score, and 🐐 Goat is G.O.A.T., the greatest of all time, a cheer that has almost replaced the farm animal in sports comments.

Medal emoji 1 2 3: gold, silver, bronze and the other awards

The podium is 🥇 1st Place Medal, 🥈 2nd Place Medal and 🥉 3rd Place Medal: gold, silver and bronze with a numeral on the disc. They arrived together in Unicode 9.0 in 2016. Before that, the only medals were 🏅 Sports Medal, the generic gold medal on a ribbon, and 🎖️ Military Medal, both from Unicode 7.0 in 2014, and the only cup was 🏆, one of the original 2010 emoji. Use 🥇 for the winner, 🏅 when you mean "a medal" without a rank, and 🎖️ for service, bravery and respect rather than a race.

🏵️ Rosette is the prize ribbon pinned on a horse, a dog or a jar of jam at a show; Unicode files it under flowers, but people use it as the "first prize" badge, which is why it is here. 🎗️ Reminder Ribbon is strictly an awareness or remembrance ribbon (the yellow, pink or red ribbon on a lapel). It gets dropped into award posts because it looks like a prize ribbon; if you want an award, 🏵️ is the honest choice.

When you need rank in plain text, the numerals do the job: ① ② ③, the bolder ❶ ❷ ❸, Roman Ⅰ Ⅱ Ⅲ for finals and seasons, and № for "№ 1". 🉇 is the Japanese character 勝 (win) in brackets, a text symbol that literally means "victory", and 🏶 is a black rosette for a monochrome badge. The full set of digits in every style lives in Number Symbols.

Star emoji for ratings, reviews and the top score

⭐ Star is the rating star: five of them, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐, is the universal "excellent". 🌟 Glowing Star is the gold star a teacher sticks on good work, so it means praise for a person ("you're a star") rather than a score. ✨ Sparkles adds shine and excitement to anything next to it, 💫 Dizzy is the swoosh of a shooting star, and 🌠 is the wish on one.

For a rating line that stays in the font colour, the text stars are better: ★★★★☆ is four out of five with ★ Black Star (U+2605) and ☆ White Star (U+2606). ✪ Circled White Star and ✯ Pinwheel Star look like badges and sheriff stars, ✦ and ✧ are the small four-pointed stars that frame a name (✦ WINNER ✦), and ✩ ✰ ✭ ✮ are outlined variants for when you want a star that is not quite a rating. Every star and sparkle in Unicode is collected in Star Symbols & Sparkle Emoji.

The scoreboard has its own marks. 💯 is "full marks": it comes from the red 100 that Japanese teachers stamp on a perfect test, which is why it is red with two lines under it. ✅ Check Mark Button says done or passed, 🔝 Top Arrow means "top" or number one, and 🆙 UP! Button, a Japanese "UP!" sticker for something that has risen or improved, is what gamers use for a level-up.

Winner emoji combos and victory captions

A winner emoji combo usually has three parts: the result, the cheer and the hype. The result is 🏆, 🥇 or 🏁; the cheer is 🎉 👏 🙌 or 🥳; the hype is 🔥 💯 or 😤. So 🏆🎉🔥 reads "we won, congratulations, that was incredible" and 🏁🥇💯 "crossed the line first, perfect run". 😤 Face with Steam from Nose is not angry here: in sports and gym captions it is the triumphant snort of someone who earned it, which is also why 💪 sits next to it.

Gamers have a dialect of their own. 🔓🏆 is "achievement unlocked": Xbox introduced achievements in 2005, PlayStation answered with bronze, silver, gold and platinum trophies in 2008, and the vocabulary stuck. There is no platinum emoji, so players write 🏆💎 or 🏆✨ for the top tier. 🤝 Handshake after a match is "gg" (good game), 🫡 Saluting Face is respect to a strong opponent, and 🐐 goes to whoever carried the team. Posted as a reaction in Discord, 🏆 by itself is "you win this thread".

For the person who did not win but did something brave, 🥹 Face Holding Back Tears and 👏 say "so proud of you" without a medal, and 🏅 (a medal, no rank) is kinder than 🥉. For a toast after the result, 🥂 🍾 and 🍻 belong next door in Congratulations Emoji too, where the occasion-specific combos (new job, graduation, baby) live.

How to type a trophy symbol in Word, Excel or on your phone

Every character on this page copies with a tap and pastes anywhere that shows emoji: WhatsApp, Instagram captions, Discord, email, a Word or Excel cell. In Word you can also type the code: enter 1F3C6 and press Alt + X and it turns into 🏆. On Windows, Windows key + . (period) opens the emoji panel, where "trophy", "medal" or "crown" finds them; on a Mac press Control + Command + Space. In Excel the emoji pastes into a cell like any text and can be counted or sorted, which is how people build a leaderboard column of 🥇🥈🥉.

People also ask for a trophy emoji in black and white. There is no text-style trophy in Unicode: 🏆, 🏅 and 🥇 are emoji only and always draw in colour. The nearest monochrome symbols are ✪, 🏶 and 🉇, or simply ★. The reverse quirk applies to 🎖️, 🏵️ and 🎗️: these three are text-default characters, so in some apps they appear as thin black-and-white glyphs until the invisible emoji selector (U+FE0F) is added, which the copies on this page already include.

On an iPhone or Android keyboard, the fastest route is the search box at the top of the emoji keyboard: "win", "trophy", "first" or "medal" all land on this set. Apple draws 🏆 as a gold cup with two handles and a dark base; Google, Samsung and Microsoft each use their own cup, so a trophy sent from an iPhone looks slightly different on a Pixel, but it is the same character and means the same thing.