Door Emoji Meaning 🚪: Leaving, Opportunity and Goodbye

The door emoji 🚪 means entering, leaving or a new opportunity. In chats it is most often a joke for "I'm out of here" or "see yourself out".

What does the door emoji mean?

• Leaving. EmojiTerra says it represents entering, exiting, welcoming someone in or saying goodbye. Emojipedia's own example is "We'll see ourselves out 🚪🚶". The top-rated answer on our door page is the blunter version: "GTFO".
• A new opportunity. Emojipedia describes it as the entrance to a room, house or new opportunity. "A new door is opening 🚪" means a fresh start.
• Opening and closing chapters. The saying "when one door closes, another opens" is why the emoji turns up in posts about change.
• Welcoming someone in. An invitation, as in "my door is always open".
• The literal door. Houses, rooms, moving home or DIY.

What does it mean when someone sends a door?

• After a joke or a bad take, it is "I'm leaving", often playful.
• With 👋 or 🚶, it is goodbye.
• Aimed at you in an argument, it can mean "get out", so read the tone.

When to use the door emoji

• Signing off a chat with a joke
• Announcing a new job or move
• Home and property posts
• Playfully showing someone the exit

Door emoji facts

• Name: door
• Added: Unicode 6.0 (2010); Apple added it in iOS 6.0
• Looks like: a brown wooden door with a gold handle, according to Emojipedia. The exact design differs between platforms.

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