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🎇Sparkler Emoji
🎇 sparkler is encoded at U+1F387 and shipped with Unicode 6.0 (2010). Unicode files it under Activities → Events & Holidays, alongside 20 related emojis.
What 🎇 sparkler 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 boom, celebration and fireworks 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+1F387 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🎇 | |
| HTML decimal | 🎇 | |
| CSS | \1F387 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F387} | |
| Python | \U0001F387 | |
| Java / C# | \uD83C\uDF87 | |
| Rust | \u{1f387} | |
| Swift | \u{1F387} | |
| PHP | \u{1F387} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%8E%87 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 8E 87 | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83C DF87 | |
| Base64 | 8J+Ohw== | |
| Decimal | 127879 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 6.0 (2010) | |
Keywords
Appears in these collections
How to type 🎇
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “sparkler”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “boom”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f387and 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 🎇 sparkler emoji mean?+
🎇 is the sparkler emoji, tagged boom, celebration and fireworks. 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 🎇?+
sparkler is U+1F387. In HTML that is 🎇, in CSS \1F387, and in JavaScript \u{1F387}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🎇 emoji added?+
sparkler 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 🎇 sparkler.