🔫Water Pistol Emoji
Generally, the 🔫 emoji just means a water pistol. People use it to express a playful, silly mood in a text message.
The 🔫 emoji usually represents a water pistol.
- Unicode
- U+1F52B
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :gun:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🔫 Water Pistol emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 7 of them.
People also look for it as water gun emoji, gun emoji.
Water Pistol emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F52B — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your water pistol looks like to the person on the other side.
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.
Water Pistol emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :gun:.
In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the water pistol, code point U+1F52B.
How to type the 🔫 Water Pistol emoji
No picker to hand? The water pistol can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
Water Pistol 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
Water Pistol emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around water pistol 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 water pistol and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
What 🔫 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the water pistol lands changes how it is taken.
🔫 vs 🐃 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Water Pistol
Code: U+1F52B · added 2010
Shortcode: :gun:
Generally, the 🔫 emoji just means a water pistol.
Unicode name: Water Buffalo
Code: U+1F403 · added 2015
Shortcode: :water_buffalo:
Generally, the 🐃 emoji is used to show support or agreement with something tough or difficult.
Where the 🔫 Water Pistol 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+1F52B 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 E50A, SoftBank E113.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Water Pistol was approved as U+1F52B 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.