thread

Group: Activities · Subgroup: Arts crafts · Emoji 11

Keywords

needle
sewing
spool
string
thread

About this character

thread belongs to the Activities group and is encoded at U+1F9F5. It was added in Unicode 11.0.

Shortcode

Chat apps such as Slack, Discord and GitHub accept this shortcode instead of the character itself.

Technical codes

Code point: U+1F9F5
Hex: 1F9F5
Decimal: 129525
HTML: 🧵
CSS: \1F9F5
JavaScript: \u{1F9F5}
Python: \U0001F9F5
UTF-8: F0 9F A7 B5

The same character is drawn differently by each operating system and font.

performing arts U+1F3AD
framed picture U+1F5BC
artist palette U+1F3A8
sewing needle U+1FAA1
yarn U+1F9F6
knot U+1FAA2

Questions

Why does this emoji look different on my phone?

Unicode standardises the meaning of a character, not its drawing. Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung each ship their own artwork, so the same code point changes shape between devices.

Does copying work everywhere?

The character is copied as plain text, so it pastes into any app that accepts text. If the receiving app has no font for it, you will see an empty box instead.