Activities · Emoji 0.6
🎏Carp Streamer Emoji
Generally, the 🎏 emoji means “good luck” or “celebration.” People use it to show excitement or wish someone well, especially around holidays or for children.
The 🎏 emoji is a Japanese carp streamer.
- Unicode
- U+1F38F
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :flags:
- Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🎏 Carp Streamer emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 3.
02 — Platforms
Carp Streamer emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the carp streamer as 9 vendors ship it.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Carp Streamer 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 :flags:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the carp streamer, code point U+1F38F.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🎏 Carp Streamer emoji
No picker to hand? The carp streamer can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
05 — Download
Carp Streamer emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 9. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
Microsoft
WhatsApp
JoyPixels
06 — Combinations
Carp Streamer emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around carp streamer for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
All combinations →Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that for every pair Google has drawn, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
07 — In conversation
What 🎏 means from a girl or a guy
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
08 — Around the world
What 🎏 means in other countries
References koinobori, the carp streamers flown for Japan’s Children’s Day, symbolizing strength through a swimming-upstream legend.
Flown every May 5th for Kodomo no Hi, tied to wishes for children’s strength and success.
Usually unrecognized, often mistaken for a generic flag or fish icon.
Before you send it: Use it specifically for Japan-related or Children’s Day content; it won’t land as intended elsewhere.
09 — Apps
What 🎏 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F38F, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
11 — Difference
🎏 vs 🪚 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Carp Streamer
Code: U+1F38F · added 2010
Shortcode: :flags:
Generally, the 🎏 emoji means “good luck” or “celebration.”
Unicode name: Carpentry Saw
Code: U+1FA9A · added 2020
Shortcode: :carpentry_saw:
Generally, the 🪚 emoji simply means a saw or carpentry tool.
12 — History
Where the 🎏 Carp Streamer 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+1F38F 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 EAE7, SoftBank E43B.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Carp Streamer was approved as U+1F38F 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.
13 — FAQ