🎃Jack-o-lantern Emoji
Generally, the 🎃 emoji just means pumpkin or Halloween. It’s a fun way to show you’re thinking about the holiday or something fall-themed.
The 🎃 emoji is a jack-o'-lantern.
- Unicode
- U+1F383
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :jack_o_lantern:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🎃 Jack-o-lantern emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 6 of them.
People also look for it as halloween pumpkin emoji, pumpkin emoji.
Jack-o-lantern emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the jack-o-lantern as 9 vendors ship it.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Facebook, Messenger
Open-source, design systems
Galaxy, One UI
Windows, Teams, Fluent
WhatsApp on Android
Slack, Discord themes
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Jack-o-lantern emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :jack_o_lantern:.
In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F383.
How to type the 🎃 Jack-o-lantern emoji
No picker to hand? The jack-o-lantern can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
Jack-o-lantern emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the jack-o-lantern as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Jack-o-lantern emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around jack-o-lantern for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with 🎃, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
What 🎃 means from a girl or a guy
Who sent the jack-o-lantern and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
What 🎃 means in other countries
Globalized through US media, so most places recognize it as Halloween — the gap is only how big that holiday is locally.
Trick-or-treating, carved pumpkins, and October 31 costume culture, well established
Understood through movies and social media, but with no local ritual attached
Loose shorthand for a “spooky” or “creepy” tone in a caption, used year-round
Before you send it: Reads fine anywhere; just don’t assume the reader shares the trick-or-treating context if Halloween isn’t local.
What 🎃 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
The character is the same everywhere, but the artwork and the reading of it change from app to app.
Where the 🎃 Jack-o-lantern emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time — U+1F383 never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
🎃 existed there as
KDDI au EAEE, SoftBank E445.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Jack-o-lantern was approved as U+1F383 and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 🎃 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.