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🎓 Graduation cap
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🎓 Emoji meaning
Diligence, perseverance, study, exam, milestone, graduation ceremony.
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🎓 Meaning
The graduation ceremony will be tomorrow! The black, square hat with a tassel is also called graduation hat, bachelor hat or scholar hat. The graduates collectively toss up their hats at the ceremony after having obtained their academic degrees. Symbol for graduation of school or examinations, and for education.
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Commonly confused with
Same Shape
Graduation cap vs crown; both signify an achievement or special status.
Emoji History
Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexiconFirst included
The emoji “Graduation cap” was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and added to Emoji 0.6 .
In the release of Emoji 16.0 and Unicode 16.0 in 2024 there was 1 change.
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+ education + scholar
In the release of Emoji 11.0 and Unicode 11.0 in 2018 there was 1 change.
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- graduation cap
In the release of Emoji 5.0 and Unicode 10.0 in 2017 there was 1 change.
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+ graduation cap
In the release of Emoji 3.0 and Unicode 9.0 in 2016 there was 1 change.
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+ cap + celebration + clothing + graduation + hat
In the release of Emoji 2.0 and Unicode 8.0 in 2015 there was 1 change.
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- cap - graduation
