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🔫Water Pistol Emoji
The water pistol emoji 🔫 carries the codepoint U+1F52B and has been in the standard since Unicode 6.0 (2010). It belongs to Activities → Games & Hobbies.
What 🔫 water pistol means
Games, toys and fortune-telling. 🎯 means you got something exactly right, 🎲 means chance, 🔮 covers predictions and manifesting posts, and 🧸 signals softness or nostalgia. The notable rendering story is 🔫: between 2016 and 2018 every major platform replaced its realistic pistol with a toy water gun, and the current CLDR name is water pistol.
Unicode tags this one gun, handgun and pistol and files it under Activities → Games & Hobbies.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F52B | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🔫 | |
| HTML decimal | 🔫 | |
| CSS | \1F52B | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F52B} | |
| Python | \U0001F52B | |
| Java / C# | \uD83D\uDD2B | |
| Rust | \u{1f52b} | |
| Swift | \u{1F52B} | |
| PHP | \u{1F52B} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%94%AB | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 94 AB | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83D DD2B | |
| Base64 | 8J+Uqw== | |
| Decimal | 128299 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 6.0 (2010) | |
Keywords
Appears in these collections
How to type 🔫
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “water pistol”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “gun”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f52band 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 🔫 water pistol emoji mean?+
🔫 is the water pistol emoji, tagged gun, handgun and pistol. Games, toys and fortune-telling. 🎯 means you got something exactly right, 🎲 means chance, 🔮 covers predictions and manifesting posts, and 🧸 signals softness or nostalgia. The notable rendering story is 🔫: between 2016 and 2018 every major platform replaced its realistic pistol with a toy water gun, and the current CLDR name is water pistol.
What is the Unicode code for 🔫?+
water pistol is U+1F52B. In HTML that is 🔫, in CSS \1F52B, and in JavaScript \u{1F52B}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🔫 emoji added?+
water pistol 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 Games & Hobbies in Activities.
Added in Unicode 6.0 (2010)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🔫 water pistol.