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🧨Firecracker Emoji
Unicode added 🧨 firecracker in Emoji 11.0 (2018), filed under Activities → Events & Holidays. Its codepoint is U+1F9E8, and it is tagged dynamite, explosive and fire.
What 🧨 firecracker 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 dynamite, explosive and fire 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+1F9E8 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🧨 | |
| HTML decimal | 🧨 | |
| CSS | \1F9E8 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F9E8} | |
| Python | \U0001F9E8 | |
| Java / C# | \uD83E\uDDE8 | |
| Rust | \u{1f9e8} | |
| Swift | \u{1F9E8} | |
| PHP | \u{1F9E8} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%A7%A8 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A7 A8 | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83E DDE8 | |
| Base64 | 8J+nqA== | |
| Decimal | 129512 | |
| Introduced | Emoji 11.0 (2018) | |
Keywords
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How to type 🧨
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “firecracker”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “dynamite”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f9e8and 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 🧨 firecracker emoji mean?+
🧨 is the firecracker emoji, tagged dynamite, explosive and fire. 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 🧨?+
firecracker is U+1F9E8. In HTML that is 🧨, in CSS \1F9E8, and in JavaScript \u{1F9E8}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🧨 emoji added?+
firecracker got its emoji presentation in Emoji 11.0 (2018). 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 Emoji 11.0 (2018)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🧨 firecracker.