🧥

Coat Emoji 🧥

A long buttoned coat, the emoji's layer for an actual cold snap rather than a light jacket or cardigan. It shows up as a heads-up to bundle up before anyone checks the forecast, and gets typed loosely for bracing yourself against anything rough, weather or otherwise.

What 🧥 means

A long-sleeved yellow trench coat with a line of buttons on the edge of each flap, a V-neck with prominent collars at the top, and a band of the same color as the coat, tied around the waist.

The 🧥 Coat emoji has an immediate reference to winter clothing, which in turn signifies cold weather, winter fashion, warmth, and protection. Apart from just a garment, a coat could also suggest a sense of being fashionable, classy, rich (because most are expensive!), and sleek too.

How and when to use it

🧥 can act as an umbrella to all relevant variations of a 'coat'. Hence this emoji can be used in the contexts of a jacket, an overcoat, a trench coat, a fur coat, and all other kinds of coats.
While texting someone to stay warm or layer up before heading out because you felt the weather and HAD to tell them how terrible it is, use 🧥. Like, "I'd like you to wear the coat 🧥 I know you love telling me how immune you are, but you CANNOT withstand this!".
You could also use 🧥 to represent formal clothing or a formal dress code if you count a coat as formal wear (because it generally is).
Basing this use-case on the first point; since 🧥 could be an emoji for the given types of coats, it could be used in the frameworks of those respective seasons as well.

Other Names

🧥 Trench Coat
🧥 Full Coat
🧥 Jacket
🧥 Formal Coat
🧥 Fur Coat
🧥 Woolen Coat
🧥 Overcoat

The lowdown

Category: Objects › clothing
Codepoints: U+1F9E5
Emoji version: Emoji 5.0
Shortcodes: :coat:
Keywords: brr, bundle, coat, cold, jacket, up

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.