U+1F947 ยท emoji since 2016
First place, around your neck. The gold medal is the podium's top step in emoji form.
It ranks everything from races to roast battles. Number one, officially.
In texting, ๐ฅ does not carry a widely used hidden or slang meaning, so you can usually take it at face value. People send it just as it looks, to add a little visual touch or set the mood of a message. Only a handful of emoji have a separate texting code, and ๐ฅ is not really one of them.
Its official Unicode name is the Gold Medal emoji. In everyday chat most people just call it the gold medal emoji or describe what it shows. Copy and paste it from the button at the top of this page.
The ๐ฅ leads off a short phrase, and the rest of the words are written in cipher, every letter disguised as another emoji. Tap decipher to reveal the whole line.
Or make your own cipher in the translator.