Meaning
This emoji depicts a soft, minimalist slip-on shoe rendered in warm tan or beige tones, often shown from the side with a low, flat sole and a simple rounded toe. The design suggests comfort and everyday practicality—think ballet flats, loafers, or cozy house slippers rather than anything flashy or formal.
People use 🥿 to express comfort, casual vibes, or the desire to kick back and relax. It's popular when discussing comfortable footwear choices, weekend loungewear, or that blissful moment of ditching heels for something easy on the feet. You'll see it in conversations about self-care, staying home, or keeping things low-key and unpretentious.
The flat shoe also carries subtle connotations of practicality and groundedness—less about making a statement and more about getting through the day sensibly. It contrasts sharply with the high-heeled shoe emoji, which channels glamour and formality, making 🥿 the go-to choice when comfort wins over style.
This emoji was approved as part of Unicode Emoji 11 in 2018, arriving relatively recently compared to its dressier cousins in the shoe family.
Common Uses
- • Expressing comfort and relaxation
- • Discussing everyday casual footwear
- • Describing a cozy, low-key mood
- • Choosing comfort over style
Popular Combos
Did You Know?
Flat shoes, particularly ballet flats, experienced a major fashion resurgence in the 2010s as a reaction against the dominance of heels, making 🥿 a symbol of the growing 'comfort fashion' movement.
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Technical Reference
Platform Shortcodes
:flat_shoe: :womans_flat_shoe: :flat_shoe: Developer Codes
| HTML (decimal) | 🥿 |
| HTML (hex) | 🥿 |
| CSS | \1F97F |
| JavaScript | \uD83E\uDD7F |
| Python | \U0001F97F |
| Java | \uD83E\uDD7F |
| Perl | \x{1F97F} |
| PHP / Ruby | \x{1F97F} |
| Punycode | xn--2run |
| URL Encoded | %F0%9F%A5%BF |
| UTF-8 Bytes | 0xF0 0x9F 0xA5 0xBF |
🥿 in 28 languages
Names sourced from Unicode CLDR and emojibase.
| Language | Name |
|---|---|
| Bengali | ফ্ল্যাট জুতো |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 平底鞋 |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 平底鞋 |
| Danish | flad sko |
| Dutch | platte schoen |
| English | flat shoe |
| English (UK) | flat shoe |
| Estonian | madal king |
| Finnish | balleriina |
| French | chaussure plate |
| German | flacher Schuh |
| Hindi | फ़्लैट जूती |
| Hungarian | lapos sarkú cipő |
| Italian | ballerina |
| Japanese | フラットシューズ |
| Korean | 플랫 슈즈 |
| Lithuanian | lygiapadis batelis |
| Malay | kasut rata |
| Norwegian | pumps |
| Polish | baleriny |
| Portuguese | sapatilha |
| Russian | балетки |
| Spanish | bailarina |
| Spanish (Mexico) | zapato de piso |
| Swedish | ballerinasko |
| Thai | รองเท้าส้นเตี้ย |
| Ukrainian | туфлі без підборів |
| Vietnamese | giày bệt |