Military medal Emoji

Activities

A gold-colored medallion featuring a five-pointed star, suspended from a multi-colored ribbon. It is designed to look like a standard service award or a badge of honor bestowed for distinguished performance.

Usage Context

Used to congratulate someone on a job well done, recognize a personal achievement, or highlight a milestone. It is frequently sent alongside 🏆 or 🥇 when acknowledging success or celebrating a specific victory.

History

Added in Unicode 7.0 in 2014, this emoji was introduced as part of a wider expansion of icons representing sports and competitive achievements, drawing inspiration from traditional ribbon-style medals found in military service and academic honors.

Details

Glyph

🎖

Unicode

U+1F396

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f396:

HTML Entity

&#xD83C;&#xDF96;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category Activities

Subcategory award-medal

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Google Noto License

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

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