🧨 Firecracker is an emoji from the Activities category. Its Unicode code point is U+1F9E8 and it was released in Emoji 11.0 (2018). Press Copy to paste it anywhere.
What does 🧨 Firecracker mean?
🧨 is the Firecracker emoji, listed under Activities → Events & Holidays in the Unicode emoji standard. You will see it in chats and captions related to dynamite, explosive, fire, fireworks and light. Firecracker has been available since Emoji 11.0 (2018), so it displays on almost all current devices. In Slack, Discord and GitHub you can type :firecracker: to insert it.
Firecracker emoji codes
| Emoji | 🧨 |
|---|---|
| Unicode | U+1F9E8 |
| HTML entity (decimal) | 🧨 |
| HTML entity (hex) | 🧨 |
| CSS | \1F9E8 |
| JavaScript | \u{1F9E8} |
| Python | \U0001F9E8 |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%A7%A8 |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A7 A8 |
| Shortcode | :firecracker: |
How to type 🧨 on your keyboard
- Windows: press Win + . and search for “firecracker”.
- Mac: press Control + Command + Space and search for “firecracker”.
- iPhone / Android: open the emoji keyboard and search “fire”.
- HTML: write
🧨in your page source. - Anywhere: use the Copy button above, then paste.
Firecracker keywords
- dynamite
- explosive
- fire
- fireworks
- light
- pop
- popping
- spark
Frequently asked questions
What does 🧨 mean?
🧨 is the Firecracker emoji, listed under Activities → Events & Holidays in the Unicode emoji standard. You will see it in chats and captions related to dynamite, explosive, fire, fireworks and light. Firecracker has been available since Emoji 11.0 (2018), so it displays on almost all current devices. In Slack, Discord and GitHub you can type :firecracker: to insert it.
How do I copy and paste the Firecracker 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 🧨 Firecracker added to Unicode?
Firecracker was released as part of Emoji 11.0 in 2018.
Related Events & Holidays emojis
Sources
Name, code point, category and keywords: Unicode® Emoji 17.0 and Unicode CLDR.