A small coin purse with a clasp, the emoji represents pocket money rather than a full bag of belongings. It's used less often than the handbag emoji, mostly for small-scale spending, tight budgets, and jokes about money running low.
What 👛 means
A pink purse with a rounded, wide, rectangular base that slightly tapers to the top, after passing a narrower cut in between, that ends in a locked pair of clutches at the rim.
The 👛 Purse emoji represents a typical female accessory. Apart from being a fashionable excuse for cutting off pockets in women's pants, this emoji signifies storage, portability, valuables, and money or coins.
How and when to use it
- A purse is a concise unit of storage, that's easy to carry around. If something or someone fits this description, feel free to use 👛 to indicate them. Like, "Omg. I could literally steal your kitten in here 👛".
- The capacity of a purse is quite less. So, if you're referring to someone or something that can fit in a purse use 👛 (no, the previous point is in a different tone and context) - "Are you for real? I could legit fit the number of f*cks he gave in a 10-year relationship in this 👛 ".
- If you're referring to money, the one you've carried or the amount you have (the latter being a sad AF situation), use 👛. For example, "Ngl. I'm broke, buddy. All I have is 👛 and that too is empty. FML".
- 👛 could also refer to a makeup kit (if the amount of makeup you have would fit in a purse, that is).
Other Names
- 👛 Wallet
- 👛 Pouch
- 👛 Coin Purse
- 👛 Change Purse
- 👛 Pouch
- 👛 Money Pouch
- 👛 Vanity Purse
- 👛 Clutch Purse
👛 in real conversations
What does 👛 actually show, and how is it different from 👜?
A small coin purse specifically, with a clasp or drawstring top, distinct from 👜's larger handbag shape. The names split differently depending on dialect too — American English tends to call the big bag a 'purse,' while British English keeps 'purse' for exactly this small coin pouch and calls the bigger bag a 'handbag' instead.
Why doesn't 👛 get used as much as 👜?
Because coin purses themselves are less common than they used to be — most people now carry cards instead of cash, so the small change pouch the emoji depicts describes an accessory a lot of phone owners don't actually own anymore. 👜 covers the everyday bag people actually use, which is why it shows up far more often.
Does 👛 have any meaning beyond an actual small purse?
Occasionally it's shorthand for money itself — 'watching my 👛' as a lighter way of saying watching your spending, tied to the coin-purse image specifically rather than a bag in general. Outside that small figurative use, it mostly just captions the literal object: a little clasp purse, often vintage or dressy rather than everyday.
The lowdown
- Category
- Objects › clothing
- Codepoints
U+1F45B- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.6
- Shortcodes
:purse:- Keywords
- clothes, clothing, coin, dress, fancy, handbag, purse, shopping
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 — 👛 Purse or 🪢 Knot?
Runs with a crowd
👛 keeps company in money emojis — tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.