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

&#xD83E;&#xDDE8;

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category Activities

Subcategory event

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

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