🪭 Folding Hand Fan

The 🪭 Folding Hand Fan emoji belongs to the clothing, filed by Unicode under Objects. Typical contexts are clack, clap, cool and cooling. The keyword list continues with dance, fan, flirt and flutter.

🪭 fits messaging apps, social networks and anywhere a short visual cue helps. On SmileyZone it is filed under Clothing and Fashion. Added in 2022 with Emoji 15.0, it displays correctly on every up-to-date system. On older phones and operating systems it may still show as an empty box. Its code point is U+1FAAD.

• 🪭 on its own already flags the topic: clack.
• Fits messages about clack, clap, cool and cooling.
• Often seen near 👙 Bikini, 👛 Purse and 👚 Woman’s Clothes.

The folding fan comes from Japan; the rigid fan is older and attested in both China and Egypt. In Spain the abanico developed a sign language of its own, through which women could send messages in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

In Japan the sensu belongs to Noh theatre, the tea ceremony and dance. And in ballroom culture the loud snap of a fan is a gesture in itself – applause and effect at once.

• 🪭👙 – Folding Hand Fan and Bikini
• 🪭🩳 – Folding Hand Fan with Shorts
• 🪭🎒 – Folding Hand Fan plus Backpack
• 🪭👝 – Folding Hand Fan and Clutch Bag
• 🪭🩱 – Folding Hand Fan with One-Piece Swimsuit
• 🪭🥻 – Folding Hand Fan plus Sari
• 🪭🛍️ – Folding Hand Fan and Shopping Bags
• 🪭🩲 – Folding Hand Fan with Briefs

Easy to mix up with 👙 Bikini, 👛 Purse or 👚 Woman’s Clothes. They sit in the same Unicode subgroup and look similar at small sizes, so it is worth checking the name before sending.