A metal tack with a flat colored head, the kind that holds a note to a corkboard, the pushpin emoji is what people use to say something has been pinned. It flags a pinned tweet, a pinned message, or a post kept at the top of a feed — a different job from 📍 Round Pushpin, which is about where you are, not what you're highlighting.
What 📌 means
A pushpin or thumb pin devised with a metal needle at the bottom and a red body on top. The 📌 Pushpin emoji signifies 'pinning' something, essentially attributing to something important, highly significant, or even requiring immediate and easy access.
How and when to use it
- If you're texting someone about how she/he needs to save something or archive something, you can use 📌. For example, "I suggest you archive those screenshots 📌" or "PIN THAT MESSAGE 📌".
- Similarly, you could also use 📌 in your post captions encouraging your audience(s) to 'save' your post or anything other such content.
- Pinning something may also suggest a degree of priority. For instance, "Put this at the top of your task list for tomorrow 📌" or "Rearrange your goals and always put first things first! 📌".
- Generally, 📌 can be used to refer to a bulletin, public notice board, etc. Similarly, 📌 maybe brought into contexts of public announcements too.
- And from an idiomatic use-case perspective, 📌 could also represent pinning down something or... someone (*creepily winks*).
Other Names
- 📌 Thumb Pin
- 📌 Pin
- 📌 Pinning
- 📌 Bulletin Pin
- 📌 Priority
- 📌 Pin Down
- 📌 Archive
- 📌 Thumbtack/Thumb Tack
The lowdown
- Category
- Objects › office
- Codepoints
U+1F4CC- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.6
- Shortcodes
:pushpin:- Keywords
- collage, pin, pushpin
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 — 📌 Pushpin or 🇸🇪 Flag: Sweden?