The yoyo emoji is 🪀, U+1FA80, from Emoji 12.0. Unicode spells its name yo-yo, with a hyphen, and lists it with the games, between Bullseye and Kite.
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A toy and a verb
CLDR gives Yo-yo three search words: fluctuate, toy and yo-yo. Fluctuate is there because yo-yo is a verb too: by Wiktionary, to move up and down, and a market that does the same. Only one other emoji is filed under toy, Teddy bear.
Tricks, spelled in emoji
Wikipedia calls the sleeper one of the most basic tricks: the yo-yo spins at its string's end before it comes back. From a sleeper come walk the dog, the elevator, around the world and rock the baby.
By Wikipedia the word yo-yo probably comes from yóyo, an Ilocano word, or a cognate from the Philippines.
Questions and answers
Is it yoyo or yo-yo?
Both are in use. Unicode and CLDR write yo-yo, and Wikipedia’s article does too, adding that it is also spelled yoyo. Wiktionary files yoyo as an alternative spelling. Search on this page takes either.
Is there a yo symbol?
No symbol stands for the toy, and no other Unicode character is named for it. Unicode does have letters named yo: Katakana letter yo, ヨ, Hiragana letter yo, よ, and Hangul letter yo, ㅛ. Two katakana together, ヨヨ, read yo yo.
How do you write yoyo text?
For the word in other letters, take a tile under Yoyo text: fullwidth, small capitals, circled, double-struck or upside down. For a picture typed with keys, o----(@) is a finger loop, the string and the yo-yo.
All 44 items
Yoyo emoji 15
🪃BoomerangU+1FA83. Filed under rebound. Emoji 13.0.
🎯BullseyeU+1F3AF. The emoji before Yo-yo in Unicode’s list. Emoji 0.6.
📉Chart decreasingU+1F4C9. Filed under down. Emoji 0.6.
📈Chart increasingU+1F4C8. Filed under up. Emoji 0.6.
🎲Game dieU+1F3B2. Filed under game. Emoji 0.6.
🕹️JoystickU+1F579 U+FE0F. Filed under game. Emoji 0.7.
🪁KiteU+1FA81. The emoji after Yo-yo in Unicode’s list. Emoji 12.0.
🪢KnotU+1FAA2. Filed under knot and tangled. Emoji 13.0.
🪆Nesting dollsU+1FA86. Filed under doll. Emoji 13.0.
🧩Puzzle pieceU+1F9E9. Filed under puzzle. Emoji 11.0.
🔁Repeat buttonU+1F501. Filed under repeat. Emoji 1.0.
🧸Teddy bearU+1F9F8. The only other emoji CLDR files under toy. Emoji 11.0.
🧵ThreadU+1F9F5. The only emoji CLDR files under string. Emoji 11.0.
↕️Up-down arrowU+2195 U+FE0F. Filed under up-down. Emoji 0.6.
🪀Yo-yoU+1FA80. The only emoji CLDR files under yo-yo and under fluctuate. Also filed under toy. Emoji 12.0.
Yo symbols 3
ㅛYo, in hangulU+315B. Unicode names it Hangul letter yo.
よYo, in hiraganaU+3088. Unicode names it Hiragana letter yo.
ヨYo, in katakanaU+30E8. Unicode names it Katakana letter yo.
Yoyo text 5
ʏᴏ-ʏᴏYo-yo in small capitals
ⓨⓞ-ⓨⓞYo-yo in circled letters
𝕪𝕠-𝕪𝕠Yo-yo in double-struck letters
ｙｏ－ｙｏYo-yo in fullwidth letters
oʎ-oʎYo-yo upside down, with a turned y
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Typed yoyos 4
o-(@)Wound up, close to the hand. Plain ASCII
(@)----o----(@)Two yo-yos, one hand. Plain ASCII
o----(@)A finger loop, the string and the yo-yo. Plain ASCII
o------------(@)A sleeper: spinning at the string's end. Plain ASCII
Yoyo drawings 2
Yo-yo face on, drawnFive lines of ASCII
Yo-yo on its string, drawnFive lines of ASCII
Yoyo tricks 6
🪀🌍Around the worldA trick Wikipedia names, done from a sleeper. Yo-yo, then globe showing Europe-Africa.
🪀🛗The elevatorA trick Wikipedia names, done from a sleeper. Yo-yo, then elevator.
🪀🔁LoopingA trick Wikipedia names. Yo-yo, then repeat button.
🪀👶Rock the babyA trick Wikipedia calls slightly more complex. Yo-yo, then baby.
🪀😴SleeperBy Wikipedia, one of the most basic tricks: the yo-yo spins at the string's end. Yo-yo, then sleeping face.
🚶🪀🐕Walk the dogA trick Wikipedia names, done from a sleeper. Person walking, then yo-yo, then dog.
Yoyo combos 9
🪀🪃Comes right backYo-yo, then boomerang.
📈🪀📉Prices on a yo-yoChart increasing, then yo-yo, then chart decreasing.
🪀🛝RecessYo-yo, then playground slide.
🪀🧵String tricksYo-yo, then thread.
🪀🪢Tangled againYo-yo, then knot.
🧸🪀🪁Toy boxTeddy bear, then yo-yo, then kite.
🪀↕️Up and downYo-yo, then up-down arrow.
🪀🏆Yo-yo contestYo-yo, then trophy.
🪀⏰Yo-yo practiceYo-yo, then alarm clock.
How this list was compiled: Built on 2026-10-08 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). Yo-yo is U+1FA80, Emoji 12.0, in the group Activities, subgroup game: Bullseye is printed before it and Kite after it. CLDR gives it three search words (fluctuate, toy, yo-yo); it is the only emoji filed under fluctuate and under yo-yo, and one of two under toy, with Teddy bear. Thread is the only emoji under string. Character names (Yo-yo, the only character named for the toy; Katakana letter yo, Hiragana letter yo, Hangul letter yo; the fullwidth, small capital, circled, double-struck and turned letters) are from UnicodeData.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt). What a yo-yo is, the spelling yoyo, the sleeper and the tricks walk the dog, the elevator, around the world, rock the baby and looping, and that the word probably comes from the Ilocano yóyo or a cognate from the Philippines, are from Wikipedia, Yo-yo (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yo-yo, CC BY-SA 4.0). The verb to yo-yo (to move up and down) and the market sense are from Wiktionary, yo-yo (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/yo-yo, CC BY-SA 4.0); yoyo as an alternative spelling from https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/yoyo. The four typed yo-yos, the two drawings, the emoji chosen for each trick and the nine combos are this site’s own work. Licence: own work: the selection, the combo names, the text drawings 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 are restated in this site's own words and credited in the source line.