Nesting Dolls Emoji
What does the Nesting Dolls emoji mean?
Meet the Matryoshka, the classic Russian nesting doll. Painted in vivid pinks, greens and reds, it’s usually shown open so you can see the smaller dolls tucked inside. It’s a simple, beautiful symbol for someone with many hidden, intricate layers.
An image of a wooden doll called "Matryoshka" — famous for nesting smaller copies of dolls inside. This layered toy often appears in messages, used both literally and figuratively.
It depicts a woman in traditional dress, usually with a gentle smile. In correspondence, that smile can be used to convey to the recipient their versatility and rich inner world.
Also Known As
- 🪆 Matryoshka
- 🪆 Russian Dolls
Apple Name
- 🪆 Nesting Dolls
Unicode Name
- 🪆 Nesting Dolls
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
Download the Nesting Dolls emoji
Vector file from the Noto Emoji set by Google, licence CC BY 4.0.
🪆 Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+1FA86
Shortcodes
- works in Emojipedia, Discord
For developers
| URL escape code | %F0%9F%AA%86 |
| Punycode | xn--h09h |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | F0 9F AA 86 |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | \uD83E\uDE86 |
| C, C++, Python | \U0001fa86 |
| CSS | \01FA86 |
| PHP, Ruby | \u{1FA86} |
| Perl | \x{1FA86} |
| HTML hex | 🪆 |
| HTML dec | 🪆 |
Tags: doll, nesting, nesting dolls, russia, babooshka, baboushka, babushka, dolls, matryoshka
Category: Activities
Subgroup: Games