📛

Name Badge Emoji 📛

A blank tag inside a red, tulip- or flame-shaped cutout: the specific badge Japanese kindergartners and schoolchildren wear, not a generic conference lanyard. The design traces to Japanese carrier emoji from the late 1990s. Elsewhere it covers any moment a name needs saying out loud: a school trip, a new job, meeting someone who's never met you.

What 📛 means

A red fire-like background, with a curved base and an edgy upper surface, producing an animated image of a flame. This background is stuck with a white rectangular space at the center for the name.

The 📛 Name Badge emoji indicates the label, tag, or any surface used to stamp or write one's name. Since this emoji is about the 'name', it could be a symbol of identity, belongingness, existence, and proof of it, too.

How and when to use it

If you're referring to a 'sense of identity' in any framework, you could bring in 📛, along with other suitable emojis. Like, "I identify with everything that's bound to break stereotype 📛" or "Identity comes with purpose 📛".
Pasting your name onto anything means that it belongs to you. While talking about something that belongs to you or anyone else, you may use 📛. For example, "You can take me out of my hometown, but you could never take my hometown out of me 📛".
Similarly, 📛 could be used to represent a 'reservation'. For instance, "This is an RSVP e-invite 📛", "I'll reserve five spots for y'all? 📛", or "Hey. Could you please reserve the ticket for me?? 📛".
As mentioned in the previous section, 📛 could also be interpreted as a flame. Considering the basic significance of this emoji, it can indicate a 'fiery/fierce name/identity - "Remember the name 📛" or "Don't be hard to get, be hard to forget 📛".

Other Names

📛 Name Tag
📛 Name Label
📛 Identity
📛 Fire Tag
📛 Flame Tag
📛 Tofu on Fire
📛 Name Sticker
📛 Name Badge On a Flame

The lowdown

Category: Symbols › other-symbol
Codepoints: U+1F4DB
Emoji version: Emoji 0.6
Shortcodes: :name_badge:
Keywords: badge, name

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.