🩲
A pair of briefs, approved the same year as 🩱 One-Piece Swimsuit as a gender-neutral option that covers both underwear and swim trunks. It's typed for laundry day, a beach-body joke, or anything stripped down to its most bare-essentials form.
What 🩲 means
A green brief with a pair of circular cuts for the legs and a plunging 'V' cut in between. The 🩲 Briefs emoji represents underwear that's either worn as an undergarment or even as swimwear. It signifies male undergarments on the whole.
How and when to use it
- If you're sharing content on male underwear; a brand repost, a post about the different styles, a video on underwear fashion, etc, you could use 🩲 in those contexts.
- Undies generally convey a sense of nudity (not exactly, but you get the point), given the plain reference to this piece of clothing. If you're sharing pictures of underwear models (or yourself), use 🩲.
- If you're texting your buddy about the underwear drought you're undergoing, use 🩲 - "I NEED to go underwear shopping RN!!! 🩲".
- If someone's texting you about showing up unexpectedly at your place, and you're making an honest suggestion about what a terrible idea that would be, use 🩲. For example, "Um. I'd rather you inform us before you drop in. We're generally not presentable otherwise 🩲".
Other Names
- 🩲 Underwear
- 🩲 Swimwear
- 🩲 Swimming Underwear
- 🩲 Undies
- 🩲 Underpants
- 🩲 Knickers
- 🩲 Y-Fronts
The lowdown
- Category
- Objects › clothing
- Codepoints
U+1FA72- Emoji version
- Emoji 12.0
- Shortcodes
:swim_brief:GitHub:briefs:Slack · Discord- Keywords
- bathing, briefs, one-piece, suit, swimsuit, underwear
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 — 🩲 Briefs or 👨🦽➡️ Man in Manual Wheelchair: Facing Right?