firecracker
Objects
What it means when sent
A firecracker, and in Chinese custom the noise that drives bad luck away at New Year.
- Code point
- U+1F9E8
- Code points
- 1
A single code point. One backspace deletes it.
Objects are mostly used as metaphors. 🚩 is not a flag but a warning sign, and 🔒 means private rather than a padlock.
Using emojis
- Tap the character to copy it and paste it anywhere — it is text, not an image, so its size follows the font around it.
- Sender and receiver on different devices see different drawings. Apple, Google and Samsung each draw their own, and for some emojis that changes the meaning (🙃, 😅).
- At work, an emoji standing in for a sentence invites misreading. In some countries a bare 👍 reads as a brush-off.
- Putting emojis in a page title does not help search ranking — they are usually stripped from the result.
- Skin-tone variants are not listed here. Only the base form is, because the meaning does not change with them.
Common questions
Q. What does 🧨 mean?
A firecracker, and in Chinese custom the noise that drives bad luck away at New Year.
Q. What is its official name?
Unicode calls it firecracker, code point U+1F9E8. It sits under Objects.
Q. Does it survive copy and paste?
On most devices, yes — though every vendor draws it slightly differently.