The sports medal is your pocket-sized podium moment. On iOS, it’s a shiny gold disk with a crisp star embossed in the center, dangling from a V-shaped ribbon striped red, white, and blue—angled just enough to catch imaginary stadium lights. The look screams champion vibes, but it’s broad enough for any win, from a 5K PR to finally mastering your sourdough starter. The immediately recognizable combo: that tricolor ribbon and the star-stamped gold face.
People drop this when flexing a victory, celebrating milestones, or giving a cheeky “you deserve a medal” for surviving Monday or calling the dentist at last. It doubles as a sarcastic trophy—“wow, you refilled the Brita, have a 🏅”—and thrives in meme-land as the upgraded participation trophy. Gamers and trivia nerds use it for speedrun PBs, fantasy league upsets, Wordle-in-one brags, or a savage quiz night sweep. It can even go flirty: “medal for putting up with me tonight?” Teachers, coaches, and managers also spam it in group chats and Slack for quick kudos.
Unlike the 1st place medal 🥇, this one isn’t locked to rankings; it’s the all-purpose award for “did a thing, did it well.” It channels Olympics broadcast energy without naming teams or events, perfect for universal congrats—or playful shade. Use it earnestly for big wins, or ironically for the tiniest W imaginable.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 829 of 2393 |
| Google Android Picture |  |
| 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 | :medal: |
| Keywords |
| Unicode Category | Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs |
| Unicode Range | 1F300–1F5FF |
| Unicode Subcategory | Gesture Symbols |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 8 - 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) | 1f3c5 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F3C5 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127941 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0x85 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 8F 85 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 217 205 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDFC5 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cdfc5 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 57285 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F3C5 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F3C5 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127941 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F3C5" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x8f\x85" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDFC5" |
