🪪
What 🪪 means
A rectangular identification card with a 🧑🦰 person's photo on the left and their credentials to the right. There's also a thin, white strip below the details with the person's signature.
The 🪪 Identification Card emoji stands for identity in any sphere; work, ownership, or education as well. However, it could metaphorically suggest individuality too. This emoji also represents a license or the sense of being qualified or permitted to carry out a particular action or work.
How and when to use it
- You can use this emoji while announcing your new license. Like, "I can FINALLY DRIVE! 🪪". Similarly, this emoji may also be a hint at getting the license in the first place - "Why don't you get a license, man? 🪪".
- You may also apply this emoji in the framework of licensing as well.
- Speaking of licenses, this emoji can be used in a casual context of "ceasing one's license". For instance, "You know you could get arrested for stuff like that? 🪪" or "You want me to tell the cops or what? 🪪".
- If you're seriously asking about someone's credentials on an informal platform, this emoji would be work for the occasion. For example, "Can I get some details on what you do? 🪪" or "How about a few credentials? 🪪".
- Besides, 🪪 acts as a symbol of qualification too, given that someone needs to be qualified enough to get an ID card. Be it a kindergartener or the CEO. So, this emoji can be applied to showcase or flaunt one's educational, vocational, and any other qualification.
Other Names
- 🪪 ID Card
- 🪪 License
- 🪪 Driver's License/Learner's Permit
- 🪪 Qualification
- 🪪 Credentials
- 🪪 Individual Details
- 🪪 Identity Card
- 🪪 Student ID
The lowdown
- Category
- Objects › other-object
- Codepoints
U+1FAAA- Emoji version
- Emoji 14.0
- Shortcodes
:identification_card:- Keywords
- card, credentials, document, ID, identification, license, security
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 — 🪪 Identification Card or 📦 Package?