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

&#xD83D;&#xDC5C;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category Objects

Subcategory clothing

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License Apache-2.0 / OFL-1.1

Google Noto License

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