The tooth emoji is your trusty digital molar—part health reminder, part comedic prop, part “ow, my jaw.” On Apple devices it looks like a glossy white molar with a rounded crown, smooth enamel shine, and tapered roots, shown at a slight three‑quarter angle with soft blue‑gray shading and a gentle drop shadow. It’s instantly recognizable as a clean, realistic tooth—no face, no drama, just pure pearly‑white energy.
People use it for dentist appointments, toothaches, braces updates, whitening flexes, and that post-cleaning “my smile could blind a satellite” feeling. It can signal pain (the “I crunched an ice cube and now regret my life choices” text), dental wins (new retainer who dis?), or a reminder to floss because the guilt is real. Drop it with a sparkle emoji for before/after pics, or with a crying face when a wisdom tooth decides to go full boss battle.
Online, it doubles as a metaphor: “sink your teeth into this,” “that take has teeth,” or a biting comeback. You’ll see it in Tooth Fairy jokes, corn-on-the-cob struggle posts, and TikToks about tooth gems and grillz (used playfully, not literally). It can even be flirty—pair it with a smile or selfie to hype up someone’s pearly whites—or sarcastic, when a truth hurts so much you feel it in your molars. In short: good for gums, great for memes, perfect for anything that needs a little bite.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 780 of 2393 |
| Apple/iOS Picture |  |
| Google Android Picture | Image not available |
| Google Hangouts Picture | Image not available |
| Twitter.com Picture | Image not available |
| LG Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Samsung Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Phantom Open Emoji Picture | Not created yet |
| ASCII Conversion | |
| "Short Code" Name | |
| Keywords |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 12 - Current |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | 🦷 |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 1 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | 🦷 |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 🦷 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 🦷 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f9b7 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F9B7 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 129463 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0xA6 0xB7 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F A6 B7 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 246 267 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83E 0xDDB7 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83eddb7 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55358 56759 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F9B7 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F9B7 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 129463 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F9B7" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\xa6\xb7" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83E\uDDB7" |
