🎱Pool 8 Ball Emoji
Generally, the 🎱 emoji means “let’s see. ” It’s a playful way to challenge someone to a game or competition, usually something lighthearted.
The 🎱 emoji represents an 8-ball, which is a key element of the game of pool or billiards.
- Unicode
- U+1F3B1
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :8ball:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🎱 Pool 8 Ball emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 6.
People also look for it as 8ball emoji, ball pool emoji.
Pool 8 Ball emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F3B1. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 9.
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.
Pool 8 Ball 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 :8ball:.
In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the pool 8 ball, code point U+1F3B1.
How to type the 🎱 Pool 8 Ball emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
Pool 8 Ball 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.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Pool 8 Ball emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around pool 8 ball 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
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
What 🎱 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F3B1, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
🎱 vs 🔮 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Pool 8 Ball
Code: U+1F3B1 · added 2010
Shortcode: :8ball:
Generally, the 🎱 emoji means “let’s see.
Unicode name: Crystal Ball
Code: U+1F52E · added 2010
Shortcode: :crystal_ball:
Generally, it means someone is suggesting a prediction or hinting at something unknown.
Where the 🎱 Pool 8 Ball 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+1F3B1 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 EADD, SoftBank E42C.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Pool 8 Ball was approved as U+1F3B1 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.