Meaning
A name badge appears as a rectangular card or placard, often with a colored border and white center, designed to display a person's name or identifier. The design typically includes a clip or pin, mimicking real-world badges worn at conferences, offices, or events.
This emoji is used when discussing workplace scenarios, networking events, or identity verification. Someone might include it when talking about their job, attending a conference, or making an introduction. It's also used humorously to claim expertise or ironic authority ("hello my name is... someone who definitely knows what they're talking about").
In professional contexts, it signifies formal identification or official roles. Content creators and professionals sometimes use it in bios to indicate credentials or professional identity. It also appears in posts about imposter syndrome, workplace culture, or first-day-of-work scenarios.
The badge emoji works well in casual office humor and is instantly understood across cultures as a marker of formal identification. Approved as part of Unicode Emoji 0.6 in 2010, it remains a straightforward utility emoji that bridges between literal workplace representation and broader themes of identity and recognition.
Common Uses
- • Referencing workplace, office, or job-related situations
- • Indicating formal identification or credentials
- • Making humorous claims of expertise
- • Discussing networking events or conferences
Popular Combos
Did You Know?
Name badges became ubiquitous in workplaces during the 1980s as organizational structures grew larger and more formal, making the emoji a distinctly modern symbol of corporate culture.
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Technical Reference
Platform Shortcodes
:name_badge: :name_badge: :name_badge: Developer Codes
| HTML (decimal) | 📛 |
| HTML (hex) | 📛 |
| CSS | \1F4DB |
| JavaScript | \uD83D\uDCDB |
| Python | \U0001F4DB |
| Java | \uD83D\uDCDB |
| Perl | \x{1F4DB} |
| PHP / Ruby | \x{1F4DB} |
| Punycode | xn--2qxn |
| URL Encoded | %F0%9F%93%9B |
| UTF-8 Bytes | 0xF0 0x9F 0x93 0x9B |
📛 in 28 languages
Names sourced from Unicode CLDR and emojibase.
| Language | Name |
|---|---|
| Bengali | নামের ব্যাজ |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 姓名牌 |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 名牌 |
| Danish | navneskilt |
| Dutch | naamkaartje |
| English | name badge |
| English (UK) | name badge |
| Estonian | nimesilt |
| Finnish | nimikyltti |
| French | badge nominatif |
| German | Namensschild |
| Hindi | नाम बैज, बैज |
| Hungarian | kitűző |
| Italian | tesserino per nome |
| Japanese | 名札 |
| Korean | 이름표 |
| Lithuanian | vardo ženklelis |
| Malay | lencana nama |
| Norwegian | navneskilt |
| Polish | plakietka |
| Portuguese | crachá |
| Russian | бейдж |
| Spanish | etiqueta identificativa |
| Spanish (Mexico) | gafete |
| Swedish | namnskylt |
| Thai | ป้ายชื่อ |
| Ukrainian | бейдж з іменем |
| Vietnamese | thẻ tên |