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🎊Confetti Ball Emoji
🎊 confetti ball — U+1F38A, added in Unicode 6.0 (2010). Unicode groups it with the other 21 events & holidays emojis under Activities.
What 🎊 confetti ball 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 ball, 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+1F38A | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🎊 | |
| HTML decimal | 🎊 | |
| CSS | \1F38A | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F38A} | |
| Python | \U0001F38A | |
| Java / C# | \uD83C\uDF8A | |
| Rust | \u{1f38a} | |
| Swift | \u{1F38A} | |
| PHP | \u{1F38A} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%8E%8A | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 8E 8A | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83C DF8A | |
| Base64 | 8J+Oig== | |
| Decimal | 127882 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 6.0 (2010) | |
Keywords
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How to type 🎊
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “confetti ball”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “ball”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f38aand 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 🎊 confetti ball emoji mean?+
🎊 is the confetti ball emoji, tagged ball, 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 🎊?+
confetti ball is U+1F38A. In HTML that is 🎊, in CSS \1F38A, and in JavaScript \u{1F38A}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🎊 emoji added?+
confetti ball 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 🎊 confetti ball.