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🥳Partying Face Emoji

The partying face emoji 🥳 carries the codepoint U+1F973 and has been in the standard since Emoji 11.0 (2018). It belongs to Smileys & Emotion → With Hats.

What 🥳 partying face means

Three faces wearing something. 🤠 is used for forced cheer or a Texas joke as often as for anything cowboy-related; 🥳 is the standard birthday and promotion reply; 🥸 disguised face, with its glasses-and-moustache novelty mask, reads as going incognito or arguing in bad faith. Partying face arrived in 2018, disguised face in 2020.

Unicode tags this one bday, birthday and celebrate and files it under Smileys & Emotion → With Hats.

Shortcodes

Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.

Codes & technical data

Unicode	`U+1F973`
HTML hex	`🥳`
HTML decimal	`🥳`
CSS	`\1F973`
JavaScript	`\u{1F973}`
Python	`\U0001F973`
Java / C#	`\uD83E\uDD73`
Rust	`\u{1f973}`
Swift	`\u{1F973}`
PHP	`\u{1F973}`
URL encoded	`%F0%9F%A5%B3`
UTF-8 bytes	`F0 9F A5 B3`
UTF-16 bytes	`D83E DD73`
Base64	`8J+lsw==`
Decimal	`129395`
Introduced	Emoji 11.0 (2018)

Keywords

Appears in these collections

How to type 🥳

Windows — press Win + . and search “partying face”.
macOS — press Ctrl + Cmd + Space to open the character viewer.
iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “bday”.
Linux — press Ctrl + Shift + U, then type 1f973 and 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 🥳 partying face emoji mean?+

🥳 is the partying face emoji, tagged bday, birthday and celebrate. Three faces wearing something. 🤠 is used for forced cheer or a Texas joke as often as for anything cowboy-related; 🥳 is the standard birthday and promotion reply; 🥸 disguised face, with its glasses-and-moustache novelty mask, reads as going incognito or arguing in bad faith. Partying face arrived in 2018, disguised face in 2020.

What is the Unicode code for 🥳?+

partying face is U+1F973. In HTML that is 🥳, in CSS \1F973, and in JavaScript \u{1F973}. The full table above lists every escape format.

When was the 🥳 emoji added?+

partying face 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.

Added in Emoji 11.0 (2018)

Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🥳 partying face.