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🎈Balloon Emoji
Tagged birthday, celebrate and celebration, 🎈 balloon sits in Unicode's Events & Holidays group inside Activities. It was introduced in Unicode 6.0 (2010) at U+1F388.
What 🎈 balloon means
Holidays and celebrations, plus a Japanese seasonal calendar most Western users never touch: 🎋 tanabata tree, 🎍 pine decoration, 🎎 dolls, 🎏 carp streamer and 🎑 moon viewing all came from the carrier sets. Elsewhere 🎉 and 🎊 announce good news, 🎃 and 🎄 do the two biggest holidays, and ✨ wraps a phrase in sarcasm or emphasis.
Unicode tags this one birthday, celebrate and celebration and files it under Activities → Events & Holidays.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F388 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🎈 | |
| HTML decimal | 🎈 | |
| CSS | \1F388 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F388} | |
| Python | \U0001F388 | |
| Java / C# | \uD83C\uDF88 | |
| Rust | \u{1f388} | |
| Swift | \u{1F388} | |
| PHP | \u{1F388} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%8E%88 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 8E 88 | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83C DF88 | |
| Base64 | 8J+OiA== | |
| Decimal | 127880 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 6.0 (2010) | |
Keywords
Appears in these collections
How to type 🎈
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “balloon”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “birthday”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f388and Enter. - HTML — paste
🎈.
How 🎈 renders
The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.
- 🎈Apple
- 🎈Segoe
- 🎈Noto
- 🎈System
Frequently asked questions
What does the 🎈 balloon emoji mean?+
🎈 is the balloon emoji, tagged birthday, celebrate and celebration. Holidays and celebrations, plus a Japanese seasonal calendar most Western users never touch: 🎋 tanabata tree, 🎍 pine decoration, 🎎 dolls, 🎏 carp streamer and 🎑 moon viewing all came from the carrier sets. Elsewhere 🎉 and 🎊 announce good news, 🎃 and 🎄 do the two biggest holidays, and ✨ wraps a phrase in sarcasm or emphasis.
What is the Unicode code for 🎈?+
balloon is U+1F388. In HTML that is 🎈, in CSS \1F388, and in JavaScript \u{1F388}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🎈 emoji added?+
balloon got its emoji presentation in Unicode 6.0 (2010). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.
Related emojis
More emojis from Events & Holidays in Activities.
Added in Unicode 6.0 (2010)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🎈 balloon.