Fire means something is hot, excellent or trending — "that's fire" or "lit." It also describes attractive people, great performances, streaks (as in Snapchat) and, literally, flames and heat. It is also known as the lit emoji. 🔥 Fire is an emoji from the Travel & Places category. Its Unicode code point is U+1F525 and it was released in Unicode 6.0 (2010). Press Copy to paste it anywhere.
What does 🔥 Fire mean?
Fire means something is hot, excellent or trending — "that's fire" or "lit." It also describes attractive people, great performances, streaks (as in Snapchat) and, literally, flames and heat.
🔥 is the Fire emoji, listed under Travel & Places → Weather in the Unicode emoji standard. It is commonly associated with af, burn, flame, hot and lit. Fire has been available since Unicode 6.0 (2010), so it displays on almost all current devices. In Slack, Discord and GitHub you can type :fire: to insert it.
Fire emoji codes
| Emoji | 🔥 |
|---|---|
| Unicode | U+1F525 |
| HTML entity (decimal) | 🔥 |
| HTML entity (hex) | 🔥 |
| CSS | \1F525 |
| JavaScript | \u{1F525} |
| Python | \U0001F525 |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%94%A5 |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 94 A5 |
| Shortcode | :fire: |
How to type 🔥 on your keyboard
- Windows: press Win + . and search for “fire”.
- Mac: press Control + Command + Space and search for “fire”.
- iPhone / Android: open the emoji keyboard and search “fire”.
- HTML: write
🔥in your page source. - Anywhere: use the Copy button above, then paste.
Fire keywords
- af
- burn
- flame
- hot
- lit
- litaf
- tool
Frequently asked questions
What does 🔥 mean?
Fire means something is hot, excellent or trending — "that's fire" or "lit." It also describes attractive people, great performances, streaks (as in Snapchat) and, literally, flames and heat.
What is the 🔥 emoji called?
Its official Unicode name is Fire, but people also call it the lit emoji.
How do I copy and paste the Fire emoji?
Press the Copy button above (or click the 🔥 emoji) to copy it to your clipboard, then paste it with Ctrl + V on Windows, Cmd + V on Mac, or long-press → Paste on iPhone and Android.
When was 🔥 Fire added to Unicode?
Fire was released as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010.
Related Weather emojis
Sources
Name, code point, category and keywords: Unicode® Emoji 17.0 and Unicode CLDR.