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🪡 Sewing needle
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🪡 Emoji meaning
Sewing, thread, mending, tailoring, or stitching up wounds.
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🪡 Meaning
Can you mend my shirt, please? The threaded needle is used for sewing or manual work. Clothing needs to be mended, a dress needs to be tailored, or fabrics need to be sewn together. Or the wound has been stitched up by a doctor.
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Commonly confused with
Same Shape
Sewing needle vs thread; both part of sewing, either can represent mending clothes.
Emoji History
Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexiconFirst included
The emoji “Sewing needle” was approved as part of Unicode 13.0 in 2020 and added to Emoji 13.0 .
In the release of Emoji 16.0 and Unicode 16.0 in 2024 there was 1 change.
Keywords changed
Keywords added
+ sew + thread
In the release of Emoji 12.1 and Unicode 12.1 in 2019 there was 1 change.
Keywords changed
Keywords added
+ embroidery + needle + sewing + stitches + sutures + tailoring
