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Meaning & usage
What does the Princess emoji mean?
A princess with a tiara, for fairy tales, birthdays and compliments.
Affectionate, sometimes teasing. Calling someone a princess can be a compliment or a comment on the fuss.
How to use 👸 naturally
Birthday messages, costume posts and affectionate teasing.
Face emoji usually carry more tone than literal information. Read them alongside the words, the relationship between the people, and whether the conversation is playful, formal or tense.
From standard to slang
The history of 👸
- 2010
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Princess 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 crowned figure from the carrier set, paired with the prince 🤴 added later. The tiara is the whole identification, and skin tone support was added in 2015.
- Today
How its use evolved
Birthday messages, costume posts and affectionate teasing.
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.
Birthday girl, treated accordingly 👸
Costume was non-negotiable 👸
Demanding, and correct 👸
When to use it
Using 👸 clearly
Birthday messages, costume posts and affectionate teasing. It lands as princess emoji or 🤴 meaning 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 princess emoji
What does 👸 mean in a text message?
A princess with a tiara, for fairy tales, birthdays and compliments. Affectionate, sometimes teasing. Calling someone a princess can be a compliment or a comment on the fuss.
Is 👸 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are princess emoji, 🤴 meaning, tiara emoji, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 👸 look different on another device?
U+1F478 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 princess 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 princess 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+1F478 | 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 | \1F478 | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F478} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%91%B8 | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F478
- Category
- Smileys & Emotion
- Also known as
- princess emoji🤴 meaningtiara emoji
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