✔️

Check Mark Emoji ✔️

Just the tick itself, no box around it, the check-mark emoji reads a little more understated than its boxed sibling. It still means correct, verified, or approved, but shows up more in checklists and inline confirmations than as a big standalone reply.

What ✔️ means

A dark grey checkmark or a tick. The ✔️ Check Mark emoji generally signifies something that's correct, right or an indication of completion, and evidence while cross-checking/verifying something. It is also shown in green, red, and blue sometimes.

How and when to use it

While referring to something that's 'done' or something that's right to do in any context, ✔️ could give that statement an elevated effect. For example, "Monday morning workout to shoo away those blues ✔️" or
"Tacos on Wednesday - ❌
Tacos on Tuesday - ✔️"
'Checking' something essentially signifies both scrutiny and a sense of completion. Like, "Doggo grooming?" "Check ✔️" or "Did you look for more clues to this puzzle?" "Yes, sir ✔️".
Since ✔️ suggests 'completion', you may bring this emoji into captions or text messages that involve instructional statements or demands that ought to be fulfilled. For example, "✔️ Repeat the same step twice" or "Send across at least two authentic images of yourself ✔️".
You could also use ✔️ as a reference to 'checking in/out' of somewhere; physical places such as hotels or virtual places like social media platforms or even work portals - "Check-in is at 10 AM ✔️".

Other Names

✔️ Heavy Grey Check Mark
✔️ Tick Mark
✔️ Checking/Ticking
✔️ Correct
✔️ Right
✔️ Heavy Check Mark
✔️ Yes
✔️ Done

The lowdown

Category: Symbols › other-symbol
Codepoints: U+2714 U+FE0F
Emoji version: Emoji 0.6
Shortcodes: :heavy_check_mark: GitHub
Keywords: ✓, check, checked, checkmark, done, heavy, mark, tick

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.