Ring emoji copy and paste starts with Ring, U+1F48D, already above Copy. CLDR, Unicode's list of search words, files it alone under engaged, married and shiny. The 103 tiles below add the wedding party, plain-text rings, captions and combos.
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Announce it
Eleven caption lines carry a ring at each end, from We're engaged to Just married. Two have blanks: paste, then type the date or the name over the underscores. The veils, tuxedos and kneelers take a skin tone. The ring takes none, and it has no text form.
Where emoji get dropped
Some name fields and printed cards drop emoji. ⚭, Unicode's marriage symbol, is two linked rings in plain text, and ⚬ is its family tree sign for engaged. Both take the colour of your words. The hieroglyphs and the two bold rings show as an empty box where no font has them.
Tips
Search proposal. No emoji is one, but Person kneeling and the combo On one knee turn up.
All four ASCII rings are 16 columns or narrower, so they hold their shape in a monospaced box.
Ring and Gem stone are from Emoji 0.6. Ring buoy and Face holding back tears need Emoji 14.0.
Questions and answers
What does the ring emoji mean?
Engagement or marriage, mostly. CLDR files 💍 under engaged, engagement, married and wedding, then diamond, romance, shiny and sparkling. No other emoji is filed under engaged, married or shiny. Unicode's own note on the character is one word: jewelry.
Is there a wedding ring emoji?
One ring does both jobs: Unicode has a single Ring, U+1F48D, and no separate band. In plain text ⚬ comes closest. Unicode's notes say it can represent a wedding ring, and ⚭, the marriage symbol, is two rings linked.
Is there a proposal emoji?
No. No emoji name and no CLDR search word holds proposal, propose or marriage. The combo On one knee sets Person kneeling, from Emoji 12.0, in front of the ring, and the line Will you marry me? asks outright.
Is there a bride and groom emoji?
Not as a pair. Woman with veil is the only emoji CLDR files under bride, and Man in tuxedo is filed under groom. Both arrived in Emoji 13.0, with Man with veil and Woman in tuxedo. The combo Bride, ring, groom joins them.
What is the emoji called Wedding?
A building. Wedding, U+1F492, sits with Unicode's places, and its notes call it wedding chapel. CLDR files it under chapel, hitched and nuptials, and it shares chapel with Church.
⛪ChurchU+26EA. CLDR files it under chapel, the one word it shares with Wedding. Emoji 0.6.
💎Gem stoneU+1F48E. The stone without the band. CLDR files it under diamond, engagement and wedding, as it does the ring, and alone under jewel. Emoji 0.6.
🤵♂️Man in tuxedoU+1F935 U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F. CLDR files it under groom and wedding. The other four emoji under groom are haircuts and a hair pick. Emoji 13.0.
🧎♂️Man kneelingU+1F9CE U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F. The same knee, with a man on it. CLDR lists kneel, kneeling and knees. Emoji 12.0.
👰♂️Man with veilU+1F470 U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F. Emoji 13.0 gave the veil to everyone. CLDR files it under veil and wedding.
🤵Person in tuxedoU+1F935. CLDR files it under formal, tuxedo and wedding. Emoji 3.0.
🧎Person kneelingU+1F9CE. No emoji is a proposal, and CLDR lists the word nowhere. Put this in front of the ring and you have one. Emoji 12.0.
👰Person with veilU+1F470. The original, from Emoji 0.6. The character under it is still named Bride with veil.
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Ring and the wedding party, continued
💍RingU+1F48D. The ring emoji. Unicode files it with the clothes, after Lipstick and before Gem stone, and its notes call it jewelry. The only emoji CLDR files under engaged, married and shiny. No text form and no skin tone. Emoji 0.6.
💒WeddingU+1F492. The emoji named Wedding is a building: Unicode files it with the places and its notes call it wedding chapel. The only emoji under hitched and nuptials. Emoji 0.6.
🤵♀️Woman in tuxedoU+1F935 U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F. The tuxedo with a woman in it. CLDR files it under wedding, the same as the other two. Emoji 13.0.
🧎♀️Woman kneelingU+1F9CE U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F. And with a woman on it. All three arrived in Emoji 12.0.
👰♀️Woman with veilU+1F470 U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F. The only emoji CLDR files under bride. It arrived in Emoji 13.0, beside a man with veil.
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🍾Bottle with popping corkU+1F37E. CLDR lists bottle, cork and popping, and leaves the word champagne out. Emoji 1.0.
💐BouquetU+1F490. The one that gets thrown. CLDR files it under flower, love and romance. Emoji 0.6.
📅CalendarU+1F4C5. For the save the date. CLDR gives it two words, calendar and date. Emoji 0.6.
🥂Clinking glassesU+1F942. The toast. CLDR files it under celebrate and clink. Emoji 3.0.
💑Couple with heartU+1F491. CLDR files it under couple, love and together. Emoji 0.6.
🕊️DoveU+1F54A U+FE0F. CLDR files it under peace. Weddings borrowed it anyway. Emoji 0.7.
🥹Face holding back tearsU+1F979. For the person who said yes. CLDR files it under joy, proud and tears. Emoji 14.0.
💏KissU+1F48F. You may now. CLDR files it under couple, kiss and romance. Emoji 0.6.
💌Love letterU+1F48C. For the invitation. CLDR files it under letter, love and romance. Emoji 0.6.
💅Nail polishU+1F485. For the manicure booked in advance, just in case. CLDR files it under manicure. Emoji 0.6.
🎉Party popperU+1F389. CLDR files it under celebrate, hooray and tada. Emoji 0.6.
🤚Raised back of handU+1F91A. The hand you hold up to the camera. Unicode has no hand with a ring on it, so this goes in front of one. Emoji 3.0.
✨SparklesU+2728. CLDR files the ring under shiny and sparkling. This is the sparkle, sold separately. Emoji 0.6.
🤍White heartU+1F90D. The heart in wedding white. It arrived in Emoji 12.0.
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🔔BellU+1F514. Rings in the other sense. CLDR files it under church, so it turns up at weddings too. Emoji 0.6.
⭕Hollow red circleU+2B55. A ring in the geometry sense. Unicode names the character Heavy large circle, and it has a text form. Emoji 0.6.
🤼People wrestlingU+1F93C. CLDR files it under ring too, meaning the one with ropes. Emoji 3.0.
📿Prayer beadsU+1F4FF. Two places before the ring in Unicode's list, and the only emoji CLDR files under necklace. Emoji 1.0.
🛟Ring buoyU+1F6DF. The only other emoji with the word ring in its name. CLDR files it under lifesaver and rescue. Emoji 14.0.
🪐Ringed planetU+1FA90. Rings, plural, and no finger. The only emoji CLDR files under saturn. Emoji 12.0.
📞Telephone receiverU+1F4DE. Also rings. CLDR files it under phone and telephone. Emoji 0.6.
⚪White circleU+26AA. A plain white disc, and a quiet engagement sign: Unicode's notes on the character list engaged, betrothed among its meanings. Emoji 0.6.
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⌬Benzene ringU+232C Benzene ring. The chemist's ring. Unicode names it Benzene ring.
🞆Bold ringU+1F786 Bold white circle. One of five ring weights in a row, medium bold to extremely heavy. It shows as an empty box where no font has it.
⚮Divorce symbolU+26AE Divorce symbol. The marriage symbol with a bar through the join. Unicode files it straight after, under the same heading: Genealogical symbols.
⚬Engaged, in a family treeU+26AC Medium small white circle. One small ring. Unicode's notes give its meaning in genealogy as engaged, betrothed, and add that it can represent a wedding ring.
🞉Extremely heavy ringU+1F789 Extremely heavy white circle. The thickest of the five: a signet more than a band. It shows as an empty box where no font has it.
⭘Heavy ringU+2B58 Heavy circle. A thicker band. Unicode's notes give it a day job as the power off symbol.
∞InfinityU+221E Infinity. Unicode cross-references the marriage symbol to it. A ring with a twist in it.
◯Large ring outlineU+25EF Large circle. The same band a size up. Unicode names it Large circle.
ÅThe letter that wears a ringU+00C5 Latin capital letter a with ring above. Unicode's name for it ends with ring above. An ordinary letter in Danish, Norwegian and Swedish.
⚭Marriage symbolU+26AD Marriage symbol. Two linked rings. Unicode files it under Genealogical symbols, the signs of a family tree, and its notes point to the emoji named Wedding. Plain text, so it takes the colour of your words.
˚Ring aboveU+02DA Ring above. The ring the next letter wears, on its own.
◎Ring inside a ringU+25CE Bullseye. Unicode names it Bullseye and points it at the emoji target. Here it is two bands, stacked.
∘Ring operatorU+2218 Ring operator. Unicode really does name it ring. In mathematics it composes two functions, which is also one way to describe a wedding.
○Ring outlineU+25CB White circle. A plain band, seen from above. Unicode names it White circle.
❍Ring with a shadowU+274D Shadowed white circle. A dingbat from the days of print, with its own drop shadow.
Two rings, side by sideU+1CC88 Two rings aligned horizontally. Unicode does name it two rings. It sits in the block Symbols for Legacy Computing Supplement, among old computer graphics. It shows as an empty box where no font has it.
⚯Unmarried partnership symbolU+26AF Unmarried partnership symbol. Two rings held apart by a line: together, no wedding. Unicode names it exactly that.
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戒指Ring in Chinese: Wiktionary glosses the pair as finger ring
指輪Ring in Japanese, yubiwa: the characters for finger and wheel
Bracelet hieroglyphU+141F2 Egyptian hieroglyph-141F2. Unicode describes it as a bracelet. It sits in the extended hieroglyph block, which fewer fonts cover. It shows as an empty box where no font has it.
𓍷Cartouche hieroglyphU+13377 Egyptian hieroglyph V010. Unicode describes it as an oval cartouche: a shen ring stretched to go round a royal name.
璧Jade disc with a holeU+74A7 CJK unified ideograph-74A7. Unihan defines it as piece of jade with hole in it. This is the bi of ancient China: a flat, ring-like disc of jade, pierced through the middle (Wikipedia, Bi (jade)).
瑗Large jade ringU+7457 CJK unified ideograph-7457. Unihan defines it as large ring of fine jade.
婚Marriage characterU+5A5A CJK unified ideograph-5A5A. Unihan defines it as get married; marriage, wedding.
誓Oath characterU+8A93 CJK unified ideograph-8A93. Unihan defines it as swear, pledge; oath. The vows, in one character.
𓋪Ring or bracelet hieroglyphU+132EA Egyptian hieroglyph S021. Unicode's description, in full: a ring or bracelet.
環Ring, as a Han characterU+74B0 CJK unified ideograph-74B0. Unihan defines it as jade ring or bracelet; ring. The left-hand part is the jade radical.
环Ring, simplified ChineseU+73AF CJK unified ideograph-73AF. The simplified form of the one before, as Unihan records it, with the same meaning.
𓍶Shen ring hieroglyphU+13376 Egyptian hieroglyph V009. Unicode describes it as a cartouche in a round form. It is the shen ring, a loop of rope that stood for eternal protection, as Wikipedia records. It shows as an empty box where no font has hieroglyphs.
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━━━━━ ⚭ ━━━━━Rule with the marriage symbol
○─────────○Rule between two ring outlines
💍✨💍✨💍Border row: rings and sparkles
💍 Bride to be 💍For the hen party and the sash
⚬ Engaged ⚬No emoji: the family tree sign for engaged each side
💍 Groom to be 💍For the stag party
💍 He said yes 💍From the person who asked him
💍 I said yes 💍From the person who was asked
⚭ Just married ⚭No emoji: the marriage symbol each side
💍 Just married 💍For the back of the car
💍 Mr and Mrs __ 💍A blank for the name: swap the titles to suit
💍 Save the date 💍For the first card
💍 Save the date: __.__.__ 💍A blank for the date: paste, then type over the underscores
💍 She said yes 💍From the person who asked her
💍 We're engaged 💍The announcement, a ring at each end
💍 Will you marry me? 💍The question, for those asking in writing
ASCII rings 4
Diamond ring in ASCIIA cut stone on a round band. Plain ASCII, 11 columns wide.
Ring in its boxThe box, open, with the ring standing in its slot. Plain ASCII, 13 columns wide.
Two bands, side by sideA matching pair, touching and not linked. Plain ASCII, 16 columns wide.
Wedding band in ASCIIA plain band with no stone, seen from above. Plain ASCII, 13 columns wide.
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🥊💍Boxing ringBoxing glove, then ring. A pun. CLDR files ring under People wrestling and leaves the boxing glove out.
👰♀️💍🤵♂️Bride, ring, groomWoman with veil, then ring, then man in tuxedo. The only emoji CLDR files under bride, then the ring, then one it files under groom.
💍🎉🥂EngagedRing, then party popper, then clinking glasses. The ring, the noise, the toast.
💍♾️ForeverRing, then infinity. Infinity is the only emoji CLDR files under forever.
📞💍Give me a ringTelephone receiver, then ring. A pun: the phone rings too.
💍✈️🏝️HoneymoonRing, then airplane, then desert island. CLDR has no word honeymoon. It has a plane and an island.
💒💍🥂Just marriedWedding, then ring, then clinking glasses. The chapel, the ring, the first drink as a married couple.
🤚💍Look at my handRaised back of hand, then ring. Unicode has no hand with a ring on it, so the ring goes after the hand. For a skin tone, copy the two separately.
💅💍Nails done, ring onNail polish, then ring. In that order, if there was any warning.
🧎💍On one kneePerson kneeling, then ring. No emoji and no CLDR search word is a proposal. These two, in this order, come closest.
🐕💍The ring bearerDog, then ring. Trusted with one job.
🛍️💍Ring shoppingShopping bags, then ring. Unicode files both with the clothes.
💍🥹Said yes, criedRing, then face holding back tears. Face holding back tears arrived in Emoji 14.0, so an older phone shows the ring and an empty box.
🪐💍Saturn has moreRinged planet, then ring. The only emoji CLDR files under saturn, and one ring to its several.
📅💍Save the dateCalendar, then ring. Calendar first: the date is the news.
💍✨ShinyRing, then sparkles. The ring is the only emoji CLDR files under shiny. The sparkles are for emphasis.
👰♀️💍👰♀️Two bridesWoman with veil, then ring, then woman with veil. The veil, twice, with the ring between.
🤵♂️💍🤵♂️Two groomsMan in tuxedo, then ring, then man in tuxedo. The tuxedo, twice, with the ring between.
🔔💍🔔Wedding bellsBell, then ring, then bell. CLDR files the bell under church. Two bells make it a peal.
🔍💍Where is the ringMagnifying glass tilted left, then ring. For the best man, at the worst moment.
How this list was compiled: Built by script on 2026-09-19, not typed by hand. The emoji, their names, code points and Emoji version numbers come from emoji-test.txt, 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, in sentence case. Ring is U+1F48D, Emoji 0.6, in group Objects, subgroup clothing, after lipstick and before gem stone. Two emoji names hold the word ring: ring buoy and ring. The 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, main branch). CLDR files ring, and nothing else, under engaged, married and shiny; ring and gem stone under engagement; nine emoji under wedding. No emoji name and no CLDR search word holds marriage, proposal, propose, jewelry, bracelet, honeymoon or champagne. Each such claim was checked by counting the word, without regard to case, across every emoji in the file. The text forms come from emoji-variation-sequences.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/emoji/emoji-variation-sequences.txt). Every character that is not an emoji was checked against UnicodeData.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt), and a note that names a character uses its name from that file. The note jewelry on the ring, wedding chapel on the emoji named Wedding, the genealogy meaning of U+26AC (engaged, betrothed; can represent wedding ring), the heading Genealogical symbols over U+26AD to U+26AF and the other uses of the plain text rings come from NamesList.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/NamesList.txt). The four hieroglyph descriptions are the kEH_Desc values of Unikemet.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/Unikemet.txt). The meanings, readings, radical and simplified form of the Han characters are the kDefinition, kJapaneseKun, kRSUnicode and kSimplifiedVariant values of the Unihan database, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/Unihan.zip). Wikipedia and Wiktionary supplied five facts, read as wikitext on 2026-09-20: the shen ring as sign V9, a loop that stood for eternal protection (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shen_ring), the cartouche as an expanded shen ring round a royal name (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartouche), the bi as a flat jade disc with a circular hole in the centre (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bi_(jade)), the Japanese word for ring as finger plus ring, yubiwa (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/指輪), and the Chinese word glossed finger ring (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/戒指). The 16 caption lines, the 4 ASCII drawings and the 20 combos are this site's own work: the lines are everyday phrases with a ring or a ring symbol at each end, the drawings are plain ASCII no wider than 16 columns, and the combo names are our own. Left out on purpose: jewellers, brands and prices, ring sizes, advice on what to spend, film and song references, and anything aimed at a person. The Unicode and CLDR files were checked on 2026-09-19, and the Wikipedia and Wiktionary pages on 2026-09-20. Licence: own work