Fire Emoji

Travel

A vibrant, stylized flame shaped like a teardrop, typically depicted in bright orange, yellow, and red. It represents an active fire or an intense source of heat.

Usage Context

Widely used to describe something that is fashionable, excellent, or intense, as in the slang term 'lit.' It is also the universal shorthand for high-temperature situations, cooking, or the concept of burning. On platforms like Snapchat, it signals a long-running interaction streak between users, often paired with 💯.

History

The fire emoji was added to the Unicode standard in 2010 as part of Unicode 6.0. Its visual design draws inspiration from early Japanese mobile carrier emoji sets, which used simple flame icons to indicate weather or hazard warnings in text messages.

Details

Glyph

🔥

Unicode

U+1F525

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f525:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDD25;

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category Travel

Subcategory sky & weather

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Twemoji Attribution

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