Balloon emoji ๐
Emoji 0.6 (2010) ยท U+1F388
What ๐ means
Balloon ๐ goes with these words in Unicode's CLDR: birthday, celebrate, celebration.
Those words also drive emoji search: try birthday or celebrate on your phone to find ๐.
On the emoji keyboard, ๐ sits with the holidays and events (21 emoji) inside activities, which has 85 emoji, for example ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐.
Will ๐ show on my friend's phone?
๐ has been around since the very first emoji set (Emoji 0.6, 2010), so every device you can think of shows it.
How to type ๐
To find ๐ quickly, type balloon into the emoji search.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type balloon.
- Mac: press Ctrl+โ+Space and type balloon in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type balloon.
Codes for developers
A character counter sees ๐ as one code point, U+1F388: 4 bytes in UTF-8 and a length of 2 in JavaScript.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1F388 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🎈 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🎈 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F388"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F388} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%8E%88 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 8E 88 |
Names in other languages
The CLDR name of ๐ in the 12 languages of this site. Each links to that language's page.
| Language | Name |
|---|---|
| English | balloon |
| Portuguรชs | balรฃo |
| Espaรฑol | globo |
| Italiano | palloncino |
| Franรงais | ballon gonflable |
| Deutsch | Luftballon |
| Tรผrkรงe | balon |
| Bahasa Indonesia | balon |
| Polski | balon |
| ะ ัััะบะธะน | ะฒะพะทะดััะฝัะน ัะฐัะธะบ |
| ๆฅๆฌ่ช | ้ขจ่น |
| ํ๊ตญ์ด | ํ์ |
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What does the balloon emoji mean?
Unicode calls ๐ "balloon" and links it with birthday, celebrate, celebration. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the holidays and events subgroup of activities.
When was the balloon emoji added?
It is one of the very first emoji, part of Emoji 0.6 from 2010, so it works on any phone.
How do I type the balloon emoji?
To find ๐ quickly, type balloon into the emoji search.