What ๐ฐ means
Neutral by name, still read as a bride. The picture is the Western white-wedding bride: a white gown and a veil, the sheer fabric worn over the head and sometimes over the face. The character is formally named BRIDE WITH VEIL; in 2020 its everyday emoji name changed to person with veil, and explicit woman and man versions arrived. Apple, Samsung and Twemoji, the set used by X (formerly Twitter), redrew the plain ๐ฐ as a neutral figure that year, but older phones and apps can still show the original woman in white. On updated emoji keyboards you can pick the woman or man version outright.
What Does It Mean When Someone Sends You ๐ฐ?
Wedding news with , a commitment joke without. With a ring, flowers or actual wedding talk attached, ๐ฐ means an engagement, a bridal shower or just-married photos. Alone, with zero wedding context, it flips to a self-own โ married to this deadline, married to the gym, married to the drama.
Wedding mode โ excitement, planning, or a wry nod to being โmarriedโ to something else. Fine among friends, riskier as commentary on someone else's love life.
Sent to someone else's partner, it reads as marriage pressure or a proposal hint โ skip it unless they raised the topic.
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What it means when someone sends it to you
4 readingsStraight congratulations, no subtext
Every form of this symbol
18Related characters
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4Worth knowing
- The veiled bride was already in au by KDDI's Japanese mobile emoji set by 2003, before Unicode adopted carrier emoji so messages could travel between different phone networks.
- Queen Victoria's white wedding dress in 1840 popularised white as the Western bridal colour; white gowns existed before her, but her wedding turned the look into a convention.
Questions people ask
2Why does ๐ฐ still look like a woman if it's called person with veil?
Older artwork. Devices and apps that haven't updated their emoji since 2020 still show the original woman in white, and even neutral redraws keep the gown and veil, so most people still read it as a bride.
Is the groom to match this bride?
Not officially. A 2017 Unicode analysis treats as a separate figure in a tuxedo, not a gender counterpart. In messages, though, ๐ฐ side by side reads as bride and groom.
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How to type or find ๐ฐ
- Also called
- bride emoji ยท bride with veil ยท veil emoji
- Search it as
- bride ยท wedding ยท wedding emoji ยท marriage ยท engaged ยท bridal ยท newlywed ยท fiancee
- Type it as
- :bride_with_veil:
- Around since
- 2010 ยท Emoji 0.6
- Shows up on
- Every phone ยท iPhone, Android, Windows, Mac, Linux
:bride_with_veil:Common shortcode in Slack, GitHub, Discord, Mattermost and other chat apps; a few apps use a different name.👰Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.