Firecracker Emoji
Activities
A bright red cylinder featuring a fuse lit at the top, typically held together by a thin black string. The design is modeled after traditional paper-wrapped explosives used for noise and light displays.
Usage Context
Used to signal excitement, a big announcement, or the metaphorical 'fuse' before something intense happens. It is frequently sent during celebrations like Lunar New Year, the Fourth of July, or when someone drops a piece of surprising news, often accompanied by the 💥 collision or 🎉 party popper emojis.
History
Added to the Unicode standard in 2018 as part of Emoji 11.0. It was introduced to give users a specific way to represent celebratory pyrotechnics and explosive energy without relying solely on the more generalized explosion icon.
Details
Glyph
🧨
Unicode
U+1F9E8
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f9e8:
HTML Entity
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Specifications
Vendor Google
Category Activities
Subcategory event
Unicode Version 6.0
Emoji Version 1.0
License CC-BY 4.0
Google Noto License
Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0
Noto Color Emoji graphics are copyrighted by Google Inc. and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Font files may also be subject to the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.
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