Pink pointe shoes with ribbons crossed at the ankle, added in 2019 for actual ballet rather than everyday footwear. It's typed by dancers describing class or a performance, and borrowed by anyone else for grace, discipline, or a childhood spent at the barre.
What 🩰 means
A pair of pale pink ballet shoes with a flexible sole and a pair of 'X' crossed straps in front. The 🩰 Ballet Shoes emoji represents the art form of ballet, apart from suggesting crucial attributes of a ballet dancer such as grace, elegance, passion, persistence, skill, etc.
How and when to use it
- If you're giving a 'black swan' reference or interpretation in any context, make sure to use these little guys 🩰. For example, "The only one standing in your way is you 🩰".
- While sharing pictures with your ballet team, a milestone in your career as a ballerina, or even a video of you (alone or in a group) doing ballet, use 🩰 in the caption.
- Although a 🥿 Flat Shoe is popularly called 'a ballerina', 🩰 signifies more of the dance form than the footwear. While posting or reposting educational content on ballet, a motivating and empowering story of a ballerina, anything to do with the art and/or the artist, use this emoji.
- Also, if a post caption or a quote has the attributes mentioned in the previous section and other related characteristics, you may use 🩰 - "You could always be graceful even while being a bitch 🩰. Like, excuse me, sir. I'd like you to delete thyself from my list.".
Other Names
- 🩰 Ballerinas
- 🩰 Ballet Gear
- 🩰 Ballet Flats
- 🩰 Ballet Slippers
- 🩰 Pointe Shoes
- 🩰 Dancing Shoes
- 🩰 Dance Shoes
- 🩰 Sabrina Shoes
- 🩰 A Pair of Ballet Shoes
The lowdown
- Category
- Objects › clothing
- Codepoints
U+1FA70- Emoji version
- Emoji 12.0
- Shortcodes
:ballet_shoes:- Keywords
- ballet, dance, shoes
How it looks across platforms
Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🩰 Ballet Shoes or 😾 Pouting Cat?
Runs with a crowd
🩰 keeps company in aesthetic emojis — tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.