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Bikini Emoji 👙

A two-piece swimsuit, the bikini emoji represents beach days, summer heat, and vacation planning generally. It also covers pool parties and anything sun-and-water related, standing in for warm-weather season the way a snowflake stands in for winter.

What 👙 means

A two-piece pink and yellow polka-dotted lingerie comprising of a bra and a bikini panty. The 👙 Bikini emoji mostly signifies the beach, and with that comes the idea of a vacation, swimming relaxation, and leisure. It may suggest a sense of being carefree and unbothered too.

How and when to use it

Is someone stressing over something? Are you being the best buddy you could be? Then use 👙. For instance, "Could you just take one deep breath and chill tf out? 👙 Have some wine or sum".
Use 👙 while sharing posts or reposts on body positivity! It can be an empowering quote, a post on loving and living in one's own skin, etc.
You could also use 👙 in all those 'feel good' or 'good-vibes-only' post captions - "Inhale the good sh*t and exhale the bad sh*t 👙".
Since a bikini shows off the wearer's body in its exact and raw form, 👙 could also act as a metaphor for being filterless. Like, "Be raw. Be who you are when you come to me. I hate filters, I always have 👙".
👙 is the perfect emoji to make plain references to lingerie too. Like, "Yoooo. Check out this amazingg sale! 👙".
Also, 👙 could be used to represent bikini wax as well.

Other Names

👙 Two-Piece Swimsuit
👙 Polka Dotted Bikini
👙 Swimwear
👙 Beach Wear
👙 Lingerie
👙 Bra and Panty (twinning, ofc)
👙 Bathers
👙 Swimsuit

👙 in real conversations

Is 👙 just a summer emoji, or does it get used year-round?

Mostly summer, and heavily seasonal — 👙 spikes hard in vacation captions, pool days, and beach trips, then goes quiet once the weather turns. It shows up occasionally in winter as a wish for warmer days or a countdown to a trip somewhere tropical, but its natural habitat is a June-through-August feed, not a January one.

What's the actual difference between 👙 and 🩱?

Coverage, plainly — 👙 shows a two-piece swimsuit, top and bottom separate, while 🩱 shows a single-piece suit in one connected garment. Neither carries a value judgment; the choice between them in a caption usually just matches whatever the person is actually wearing in the photo, or whichever style a pool-day post is celebrating.

Where does the word 'bikini' actually come from?

Bikini Atoll, oddly enough — French designer Louis Reard named his 1946 two-piece after the Pacific site where the US had just tested a nuclear bomb, betting the design would be just as explosive. No professional model would wear it at first, so a Paris dancer, Micheline Bernardini, debuted it instead. 👙 still carries that name today.

The lowdown

Category: Objects › clothing
Codepoints: U+1F459
Emoji version: Emoji 0.6
Shortcodes: :bikini:
Keywords: bathing, beach, bikini, clothing, pool, suit, swim

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.