A tall black top hat, the emoji represents old-school formalwear and flair, used for fancy, dressed-to-the-nines occasions and magician acts. It's also a wink toward old-money wealth and a nod to the Monopoly board's top hat token.
What 🎩 means
A tall black cylindrical hat with an outwardly curving rim that has a prominent band of gold right above it. The 🎩 Top Hat emoji represents a formal piece of English-styled dressing which is generally used for formal occasions.
How and when to use it
- If you're posting or reposting content on magic, magic shows, magicians, illusionary magic, etc, use 🎩.
- If you're making metaphorical inferences to magic (most suitably, the act of pulling a bunny out a hat) or a magician, then too 🎩 would come in handy. For example, "It's still magic even if you know how it's done 🎩" or "Love is the magician that pulls a man out of his own hat 🎩".
- You could use 🎩 as a way of sending greetings or tipping your hat.
- If you're sharing posts or reposts about Slash of GnR, use 🎩.
- With that use-case being put on the table, 🎩 would always make for a great element of signature style. So, if you're talking about style and uniqueness in any context, 🎩 could be of use.
- If you're reposting an announcement, an informative post, or even a glamourous post of a formal event you could use 🎩 in the caption. Like, royal weddings, church ceremonies, formal gatherings, etc.
Other Names
- 🎩 Beaver Hat
- 🎩 Silk Hat
- 🎩 Black Top Hat With Gold Ribbon
- 🎩 Black Hat
- 🎩 Chimney Pot Hat
- 🎩 Stove Pipe Hat
- 🎩 Formal Wear
- 🎩 Groom Hat
- 🎩 Hat
🎩 in real conversations
What does 🎩 mean in a text or caption?
Old-money formality — 🎩 signals top hats, tuxedos, black-tie events, the kind of dress code that belongs to a wedding or a gala rather than everyday life. It also doubles as shorthand for magic tricks, since a rabbit pulled from a top hat is one of the most familiar images in stage magic. Both readings point toward theater and spectacle.
Why is 🎩 tied to Monopoly specifically?
Because it's the exact hat one of Monopoly's classic tokens wears — the top hat has been part of the game's original lineup since the 1930s, styled after Rich Uncle Pennybags, the wealthy mascot on the box. 🎩 leans on that same old-money, top-of-the-ladder image whenever a caption is joking about being rich or winning big.
Does 🎩 ever mean anything besides fancy or formal?
Sometimes it's a magician's cue — pulling a surprise, revealing a twist, or joking about 'making something disappear.' It also shows up in vintage or old-timey captions, a nod to an era when a top hat was standard menswear rather than a costume piece. Either way it stays dressed-up territory, never a casual pick.
The lowdown
- Category
- Objects › clothing
- Codepoints
U+1F3A9- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.6
- Shortcodes
:tophat::top_hat:Discord- Keywords
- clothes, clothing, fancy, formal, hat, magic, top, tophat
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 — 🎩 Top Hat or 🧀 Cheese Wedge?
Runs with a crowd
🎩 keeps company in black emojis and cool emojis — tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.