Try Dollar Banknote emoji
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Meaning & usage
What does the Dollar Banknote emoji mean?
A green dollar bill, the usual cash and money emoji.
Practical and a bit flashy. It points at real money more directly than 💰.
How to use 💵 naturally
Payday, prices, paying someone back and cash jokes.
Object emoji usually point to an activity or topic rather than an emotion. They work well as labels in lists, captions and announcements, where the image makes the subject easy to scan.
From standard to slang
The history of 💵
- 2010
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Dollar Banknote was first defined as emoji in Emoji 0.6, dated 2010. That label is retrospective: Unicode applied it later to the early mobile core it inherited from the Japanese carriers.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
A green banknote, from the carrier set, which also encoded yen, euro and pound notes. The dollar note became the default money emoji because it is the one most keyboards show first.
- Today
How its use evolved
Payday, prices, paying someone back and cash jokes.
Dates follow Unicode’s official Emoji Versions chart. Versions before Emoji 1.0 are labelled retrospectively. See the history of emoji.
In conversation
Examples of 💵 in messages
These examples show the emoji in complete messages, where the words make its intended tone easier to read.
Payday at last 💵
You owe me a tenner 💵
Cash only at this place 💵
When to use it
Using 💵 clearly
Payday, prices, paying someone back and cash jokes. It lands as cash emoji or dollar emoji when the rest of the message supports that reading, and it is the surrounding words that do the deciding — so in a sensitive, professional or cross-cultural conversation, say the thing outright as well.
Common questions
About the dollar banknote emoji
What does 💵 mean in a text message?
A green dollar bill, the usual cash and money emoji. Practical and a bit flashy. It points at real money more directly than 💰.
Is 💵 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are cash emoji, dollar emoji, money emoji, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 💵 look different on another device?
U+1F4B5 identifies the emoji; the picture is a font, drawn separately by Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung. Only the artwork changes, never the character.
How do I copy and paste the dollar banknote emoji?
Use the copy button at the top of this page. 💵 is a character, not an image, so it pastes into messages, captions and filenames as ordinary text.
When was the dollar banknote emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 💵 as emoji in Emoji 0.6, dated 2010. Early emoji version numbers can be retrospective, so this date describes its place in the standardised emoji set rather than the first-ever appearance of the underlying symbol.
For developers
💵 in code
Every value below is generated from the character itself, so it stays correct even where a file encoding cannot hold the emoji directly.
| Format | Value | When to use it | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+1F4B5 | The standard reference. Use it to search a character map or a spec. | |
| HTML (hex) | 💵 | For HTML and XML. Safe in files that are not saved as UTF-8. | |
| HTML (decimal) | 💵 | The same reference in decimal. Both render identically. | |
| CSS | \1F4B5 | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F4B5} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%92%B5 | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F4B5
- Category
- Objects & Tech
- Also known as
- cash emojidollar emojimoney emoji
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