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A small bag carried by women, typically used for carrying personal items.

A small bag carried by women, typically used for carrying personal items. Emoji

Objects

A classic leather handbag with a sturdy handle and a buckle closure. This icon represents a standard personal carry-all used for storing everyday essentials like a wallet, keys, and makeup.

Usage Context

Used to discuss shopping trips, fashion choices, or luxury goods. It is frequently paired with 🛍️ to signal a day out at the mall or 👠 when describing an outfit for a formal event.

History

Added to the Unicode standard in 2010, the handbag emoji reflects the transition of traditional physical accessories into digital shorthand. Its design was modeled after mid-20th-century silhouettes that became iconic in department store catalogs and early fashion-oriented internet blogs.

Details

Glyph
👜
Unicode
U+1F45C
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f45c:
HTML Entity
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Specifications

Vendor Google
Category Objects
Subcategory clothing
Unicode Version 6.0
Emoji Version 1.0
License CC-BY 4.0
Tags
handbagfashionaccessoryaccessoriesshoppingbagclothingpursewomen’sleathertoteluxury

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0

Noto Color Emoji graphics are copyrighted by Google Inc. and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Font files may also be subject to the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.

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