yarn Emoji

The yarn emoji represents a sport, game, hobby, or event-related activity, commonly used to indicate plans ("let's play"), interests, or to add a celebratory or activity-specific visual accent to a message or post.

Category context: The Activities category covers sports, games, arts and crafts, and event-related symbols — commonly used to represent hobbies, plans, and celebrations in casual conversation and event promotion.

Cataloged under Arts Crafts within the Activities category, yarn is the 5th of 85 emoji How To Type Any Symbol lists in this category, and was introduced in Emoji version 11 of the Unicode Emoji Standard. Technically, it is represented by a single Unicode code point rather than a combined sequence, making it one of the simpler emoji to encode and display reliably across platforms. Its Unicode code point sequence is U+1F9F6.

💡 Good to know: Sport and game emoji are commonly used in group chats to coordinate plans or express interest, functioning as a compact, universally understood shorthand for an activity.