fireworks
Activities
What it means when sent
A firework bursting in the night sky. In most places it means New Year, in the United States the Fourth of July, and in Japan the summer hanabi festivals.
- Code point
- U+1F386
- Code points
- 1
A single code point. One backspace deletes it.
Sport and game emoji mostly travel as metaphors. ๐ฏ is not a dartboard but โnailed itโ, and ๐ฒ is leaving it to chance.
Using emojis
- Tap the character to copy it and paste it anywhere โ 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 (๐, ๐ ).
- At work, an emoji standing in for a sentence invites misreading. In some countries a bare ๐ reads as a brush-off.
- Putting emojis in a page title does not help search ranking โ 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 ๐ mean?
A firework bursting in the night sky. In most places it means New Year, in the United States the Fourth of July, and in Japan the summer hanabi festivals.
Q. What is its official name?
Unicode calls it fireworks, code point U+1F386. It sits under Activities.
Q. Does it survive copy and paste?
On most devices, yes โ though every vendor draws it slightly differently.