What 🩴 means
Flip-flops, warm weather, and dressing down.
Australians call these sandals thongs; New Zealanders call them jandals. Elsewhere, the English word thong can mean underwear. For an international English-speaking audience, write flip-flops to keep the conversation about your feet.
Casual and summery; more at home in holiday chats than formal correspondence.
The emoji is footwear; the English word thong can mean underwear.
What it means when someone sends it to you
2 readingsBeach caption with sun and waves
Holiday mood: swimming, sunshine, and relaxed clothes.
Australian sender writes “bring thongs” with 🩴
A practical request: pack your sandals.
Don't confuse it with
1Combination ideas
2Caption idea: beach day, sandals on.
Caption idea: hot-weather uniform, shorts and flip-flops.
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 “thong sandal”.
macOS
Control+Command+Spaceopens the character viewer.
iOS / Android
Emoji keyboard → search “thong sandal”.
Chat apps
:thong_sandal:the common shortcode; support varies by platform.HTML
🩴Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🩴
HTML hex
🩴
CSS content
content: "\1FA74";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%A9%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.