U+1F9F6 "🧶" Ball of Yarn Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🧶
U+1F9F6 "🧶" Ball of Yarn is a pictographic symbol representing a coiled or wound ball of yarn, typically used in digital communication to denote knitting, crocheting, sewing, crafting, or the concept of creativity and patience. It was added to the Unicode Standard in 2018 as part of Emoji 11.0. The character often appears in contexts related to hobbies, handmade goods, or text messages about winding yarn or untangling a situation. Its design varies across platforms, usually showing a multicolored or single colored sphere of thread with a loose strand trailing from it.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F9F6 |
| Version Added | 11.0 |
| Name | Ball of Yarn |
| Block | Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 🧶 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 🧶 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9F 0xA7 0xB6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83E 0xDDF6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F9F6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83e\uddf6 |