Priest Emoji

Unicode has no emoji named priest: press Copy for β›ͺ Church, or take a cross, folded hands or a combo.

Priest Emoji

β›ͺChurchU+26EAReady to copy

52 items. Tap one to copy it.

Church, cross and folded hands 10

Bell, candle, chapel and temple 9

Text crosses and chess bishops 4

Titles and priest in other languages 12

Typed priests 4

Priest combos 13

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How it works

The nearest emoji is β›ͺ Church, which CLDR, Unicode’s list of search words, files under Christian, chapel and bless. ✝️ Latin cross and πŸ™ Folded hands come next.

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What the word priest finds

CLDR files no emoji under priest, clergy, vicar or robe. It files Christian under three: the church and the Latin and Orthodox crosses. Church leads to the building, πŸ”” Bell and πŸ‘Ό Baby angel. Collar leads only to a T-shirt and Woman’s clothes, and the one person filed under suit is πŸ•΄οΈ Person in suit levitating.

A priest by the dictionary

By Wiktionary a priest is a member of the clergy trained to perform services or sacrifices at a church or temple, and a pujari is a priest in a Hindu temple, so ⛩️ Shinto shrine and πŸ›• Hindu temple are here. A cassock is the ankle-length robe some Christian clergy wear and a clerical collar the stiff white one. No emoji is named for either.

Questions and answers

Is there a priest emoji?

Not by that name. Unicode’s emoji list, version 18.0, has no emoji named priest, and no search word leads to one. β›ͺ Church is the nearest by its search words, and the combo 🀡✝️ sets Person in tuxedo beside the Latin cross.

Is there a priest emoticon?

Wikipedia’s list of emoticons has none. Typed, (^_^)/† is a face holding up the dagger mark, which Unicode’s names list also calls long cross, and (-_-)/+ does it in plain ASCII with a plus sign.

Is there a bishop emoji?

Not for the clergy. Eighteen Unicode character names hold bishop and every one is a chess piece: β™— is WHITE CHESS BISHOP, U+2657, and ♝ is BLACK CHESS BISHOP, U+265D. Both are text characters with no emoji form.

Why does the cross emoji show as a plain black cross?

✝️ Latin cross and ☦️ Orthodox cross were text characters first, in Unicode since version 1.1. Each emoji is the old character followed by U+FE0F, which asks for the emoji style. Without that selector the character may show in its text style.

All 52 items

Church, cross and folded hands 10

  • Baby angel U+1F47C. One of three emoji filed under church. Filed under church and angel. Emoji 0.6.
  • Church U+26EA. The nearest emoji by its search words. Filed under Christian, chapel and bless. Emoji 0.6.
  • Folded hands U+1F64F. Unicode's character name is PERSON WITH FOLDED HANDS. Filed under pray and blessed. Emoji 0.6.
  • Latin cross U+271D U+FE0F. The only emoji filed under christ. Filed under Christian and cross. Emoji 0.7.
  • Orthodox cross U+2626 U+FE0F. The only emoji filed under orthodox. Filed under Christian and cross. Emoji 1.0.
  • Person in suit levitating U+1F574 U+FE0F. Unicode's character name is MAN IN BUSINESS SUIT LEVITATING. The one person filed under suit. Emoji 0.7.
  • Person in tuxedo U+1F935. Unicode's character name is MAN IN TUXEDO, and the names list calls it the appearance for a groom. Filed under formal and tuxedo. Emoji 3.0.
  • Person kneeling U+1F9CE. Filed under kneel and kneeling. Emoji 12.0.
  • Place of worship U+1F6D0. The only emoji filed under worship. Filed under pray and religion. Emoji 1.0.
  • Smiling face with halo U+1F607. The only emoji filed under halo. Filed under blessed and angel. Emoji 1.0.
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Bell, candle, chapel and temple 9

  • Bell U+1F514. One of three emoji filed under church. Filed under church and bell. Emoji 0.6.
  • Candle U+1F56F U+FE0F. The only emoji filed under candle. Filed under candle and light. Emoji 0.7.
  • Dove U+1F54A U+FE0F. The only emoji filed under dove. Filed under dove and peace. Emoji 0.7.
  • Hindu temple U+1F6D5. By Wiktionary a pujari is a priest in a Hindu temple. Filed under hindu and temple. Emoji 12.0.
  • Open book U+1F4D6. Filed under book and reading. Emoji 0.6.
  • Prayer beads U+1F4FF. The only emoji filed under beads. Filed under prayer and religion. Emoji 1.0.
  • Ring U+1F48D. Filed under wedding and married. Emoji 0.6.
  • Shinto shrine U+26E9 U+FE0F. The names list glosses it torii. Wiktionary's own examples for priest include a Shinto one. The only emoji filed under shinto and shrine. Emoji 0.7.
  • Wedding U+1F492. The names list glosses it wedding chapel. Filed under chapel and wedding. Emoji 0.6.

Text crosses and chess bishops 4

  • Black chess bishop U+265D. The filled chess bishop. By Wiktionary the word bishop goes back to Greek episkopos, overseer.
  • Dagger U+2020. A typed cross. The names list also calls it obelisk, long cross.
  • Shadowed white Latin cross U+271E. A Latin cross with a shadow, from the Dingbats block. A text character with no emoji form.
  • White chess bishop U+2657. No character is named priest. Bishop is in eighteen character names, each a chess piece. This is the first.

Titles and priest in other languages 12

  • ιΡρέας Greek for priest, by Wiktionary
  • πρΡσβύτΡρος Ancient Greek for elder, by Wiktionary
  • свящСнник Russian for priest, by Wiktionary
  • 司η₯­ Japanese for priest, shisai, by Wiktionary
  • η₯­εΈ Mandarin for priest, by Wiktionary
  • Fr. Short for Father, by Wiktionary
  • kasisi Swahili for priest, by Wiktionary
  • ksiΔ…dz Polish for priest, by Wiktionary
  • prΓͺtre French for priest, by Wiktionary
  • Priester German for priest, by Wiktionary
  • Rev. Short for Reverend, by Wiktionary
  • sacerdote Spanish and Italian for priest, by Wiktionary

Typed priests 4

  • (-_-)/+ The same with eyes shut and a plus sign. Plain ASCII
  • (^_^) [†] A face beside a book with the dagger mark on its cover
  • (^_^)/† A typed face holding up the dagger mark, which the Unicode names list also calls long cross
  • (^_^)/† (-_-)(-_-)(-_-) The first face again, before three heads bowed

Priest combos 13

  • Candlelight service Church, then candle.
  • Chapel wedding Wedding, then ring.
  • Church bells Bell, then church, then bell.
  • Dove over the church Dove, then church.
  • Kneeling at the church Person kneeling, then church.
  • Priest at the church Church, then person in tuxedo.
  • Priest in prayer Person in tuxedo, then folded hands.
  • Priest with a cross Person in tuxedo, then latin cross.
  • Priest with an Orthodox cross Person in tuxedo, then orthodox cross.
  • Shrine priest Person, then shinto shrine.
  • Sunday sermon Speaking head, then open book.
  • Sunday service Church, then bell, then folded hands.
  • Temple priest Person, then hindu temple.

How this list was compiled: Built on 2026-10-13 from sources read that day. The emoji, their names, code points and Emoji version numbers are from the Unicode emoji list, version 18.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/emoji/emoji-test.txt); names are the CLDR short names printed in that file. Search words are from the CLDR English annotations (https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotations/en.xml and https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotationsDerived/en.xml). Unicode has no emoji named priest: no emoji name, no CLDR search word and no character name in UnicodeData.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt), holds priest, clergy, vicar, cassock or robe. Church is U+26EA, Emoji 0.6; CLDR files six words under it (bless, chapel, Christian, church, cross, religion). CLDR files Christian under three emoji (Church, Latin cross, Orthodox cross), church under three (Baby angel, Church, Bell), bless under Church alone, chapel under Wedding and Church, blessed under Smiling face with halo and Folded hands, collar under T-shirt and Woman's clothes, and suit under nine emoji of which one is a person (Person in suit levitating). The character names PERSON WITH FOLDED HANDS, MAN IN TUXEDO and MAN IN BUSINESS SUIT LEVITATING are from UnicodeData.txt; the notes on Man in tuxedo (appearance for groom), Shinto shrine (torii), Wedding (wedding chapel) and Dagger (obelisk, long cross) are from the Unicode names list (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/NamesList.txt). Eighteen character names hold the word bishop and each is a chess piece; White chess bishop is U+2657 and Black chess bishop U+265D. Latin cross (U+271D) and Orthodox cross (U+2626) have been in Unicode since version 1.1 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/DerivedAge.txt); each has a text style and an emoji style in Unicode's list of emoji variation sequences (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/emoji/emoji-variation-sequences.txt), and the emoji list marks the bare character unqualified. From Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0), restated: priest (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/priest) for the definition, the Greek root, the example of a Shinto priest and the Spanish, Italian, French, German, Polish, Russian, Greek, Japanese, Mandarin and Swahili words; pujari (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pujari); cassock (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cassock); clerical collar (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/clerical_collar); Fr. (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Fr%2E); Rev. (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Rev%2E); bishop (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bishop) for the chess piece and the Greek root. Wikipedia's List of emoticons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emoticons) holds no priest. The combo names are this page's own. This page shows characters to copy; it states no rule of any faith. Licence: own work: the selection, the combo names and the notes are this site's own. Emoji names, code points and search words are Unicode and CLDR data, used under the Unicode License v3 (https://www.unicode.org/license.txt). Facts from Wikipedia and Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) are restated in this site's own words and credited in the source line.

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