How it works
The cap emoji is Billed cap, U+1F9E2. In chat it can mean a lie, so after the other hats come the emoji for no cap, eight lines to paste, ASCII caps and combos.
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Cap for a lie, no cap for the truth
Wiktionary records cap as slang, first used in African American English, for a lie or an exaggeration, and lists 🧢 as a way to write it. No cap is the opposite: a way to stress that you are telling the truth. No cap 🚫🧢 puts the Prohibited sign before the cap.
The other hats
CLDR, Unicode's list of search words, files three emoji under cap and eleven under hat. The eight tiles after the cap are all of them, without the man and woman forms of the construction worker.
- Lying face is the only emoji CLDR files under lie. The cap is filed under baseball, dad and hat.
Questions and answers
What does the cap emoji mean?
In slang, a lie. Wiktionary gives cap as slang for a lie or exaggeration and lists the cap emoji as another spelling of it. So 🧢 after a claim calls it a lie. Otherwise it is a baseball cap.
How do you write no cap in emoji?
Put a no sign before the cap: No cap 🚫🧢. Wiktionary also records the short form, the word no followed by the cap emoji, which is the line No 🧢 here.
What is the cap emoji called?
Billed cap. It is U+1F9E2, added in Emoji 5.0, and Unicode's notes call it a baseball cap. CLDR lists six search words for it: baseball, bent, billed, cap, dad and hat.
Is there a cap emoji in another color?
No. Unicode's emoji list has one emoji with billed in its name and no color forms of it, unlike the hearts or the circles. CLDR files two more emoji under cap: Graduation cap and Person with skullcap.