Clutch bag

What 👝 means

Small, handle-free and made for evenings. The clutch means formal events and carrying only the essentials.

Formal nights, weddings and makeup bags use it, often with 👗 or 💄. People also use it for a pencil case, a toiletry bag or a small pouch in packing lists.

Facts

Clutch bag 👝 is an emoji in the objects category, under clothing. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :pouch: or :clutch_bag:. People also look for it with words like “bag”, “clothes”, “clothing”, or “clutch”.

Timeline

1. 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)

Design history

Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.

objects · Unicode 6.0