An open pleated fan, part of the 2022 emoji update, the same shape flamenco dancers snap open on the beat and K-pop fan dances spin through choreography. Drag performers crack the real object open with that same loud snap to punctuate a read, and the emoji borrows that theatrical flourish more than any ordinary cooling fan.
What 🪭 means
A folding hand fan, open in a wide arc, patterned and elegant. The 🪭 Folding Hand Fan emoji (Emoji 15.0, September 2022) carries centuries of style — Japanese sensu, Spanish abanicos, dance, opera, and the timeless art of the dramatic flourish.
It cools, it conceals, it punctuates: no accessory does more with one flick of the wrist.
How and when to use it
- Heatwave survival with elegance: "38°C outside. Me and my 🪭 are not leaving the shade."
- Dance and performance content — flamenco, classical Japanese dance, drag: "The 🪭 snap at the end of the routine? Perfection."
- For serving drama: "She read the whole thread and simply replied 🪭"
The lowdown
- Category
- Objects › clothing
- Codepoints
U+1FAAD- Emoji version
- Emoji 15.0
- Shortcodes
:folding_hand_fan:- Keywords
- clack, clap, cool, cooling, dance, fan, flirt, flutter, folding, hand, hot, shy
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 — 🪭 Folding Hand Fan or 🎨 Artist Palette?
Runs with a crowd
🪭 keeps company in navratri & garba emojis — tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.