U+1FA86 "🪆" Nesting Dolls Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🪆
U+1FA86 "🪆" Nesting Dolls is a pictographic representation of the traditional Russian matryoshka doll, a set of hollow wooden figures that nest inside one another, typically painted as stylized peasant women. Added to the Unicode Standard in 2020 as part of the Symbols and Pictographs Extended-A block, this character is used in digital contexts to symbolize nested structures, hidden layers, recursion, or the concept of something containing a smaller version of itself. Its design often shows a single large doll with a visible seam or opening, suggesting the presence of unseen inner dolls, and it serves as a versatile icon for themes of discovery, complexity, or cultural heritage in text and messaging.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1FA86 |
| Version Added | 13.0 |
| Name | Nesting Dolls |
| Block | Symbols and Pictographs Extended-A |
| 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 0xAA 0x86 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83E 0xDE86 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001FA86 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83e\ude86 |