What 🤴 means
Yes — it was added as a male royal. Unicode, the body that standardizes emoji, noted in 2015 that 👸 Princess had no male counterpart, and 🤴 filled the gap. A 2017 gender-inclusive proposal asked for a crowned person to complement both, and 🫅 arrived in 2021.
Playful royal talk, not a claim about anyone's actual title.
Aimed at a woman or nonbinary friend, 🤴 adds a male role; send 🫅 instead.
Combination ideas
2Suggestion: a storybook royal couple.
Suggestion: calling him your Prince Charming.
Worth knowing
- 🤴 is a single code point, so it survives copying through almost anything — old databases, SMS gateways, printer drivers.
Questions people ask
1Why does 🤴 look different on other phones?
Every platform draws its own artwork for the same code point. The character you send is identical; Apple, Google, Samsung and WhatsApp each render it in their own style.
How to type 🤴
Windows
Win+.Open the emoji picker and search “prince”.
macOS
Control+Command+Spaceopens the character viewer.
iOS / Android
Emoji keyboard → search “prince”.
Chat apps
:prince:the common shortcode; support varies by platform.HTML
🤴Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🤴
HTML hex
🤴
CSS content
content: "\1F934";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%A4%B4
1
On screen
1
Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.