Firecracker emoji 🧨
Emoji 11.0 (2018) · U+1F9E8
What 🧨 means
Firecracker 🧨 goes with these words in Unicode's CLDR: dynamite, explosive, fire, fireworks, light, pop, popping, spark.
Those words also drive emoji search: try dynamite or explosive on your phone to find 🧨.
On the emoji keyboard, 🧨 sits with the holidays and events (21 emoji) inside activities, which has 85 emoji, for example ✨ 🎈 🎉 🎊.
Will 🧨 show on my friend's phone?
🧨 dates from Emoji 11.0 (2018). Unless a phone has gone years without an update, it shows it.
How to type 🧨
To find 🧨 quickly, type firecracker into the emoji search.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type firecracker.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type firecracker in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type firecracker.
Codes for developers
A character counter sees 🧨 as one code point, U+1F9E8: 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+1F9E8 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🧨 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🧨 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F9E8"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F9E8} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%A7%A8 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A7 A8 |
Names in other languages
The CLDR name of 🧨 in the 12 languages of this site. Each links to that language's page.
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What does the firecracker emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🧨 "firecracker" and links it with dynamite, explosive, fire, fireworks. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the holidays and events subgroup of activities.
When was the firecracker emoji added?
In Emoji 11.0, released in 2018. Phones updated since about 2019 show it.
How do I type the firecracker emoji?
To find 🧨 quickly, type firecracker into the emoji search.