Activities · Emoji 11.0
🧨Firecracker Emoji
Generally, the 🧨 emoji means something exciting or explosive. People use it to show they’re happy or surprised about something.
The 🧨 emoji is a firecracker.
- Unicode
- U+1F9E8
- Released
- 2018
- Shortcode
- :firecracker:
- Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🧨 Firecracker emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
People also look for it as dynamite emoji, spark emoji.
02 — Platforms
Firecracker emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F9E8. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 9.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Firecracker 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 :firecracker:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Escapes for the languages people actually paste this into. Every one of them produces the same character, and that character is U+1F9E8.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🧨 Firecracker emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
05 — Download
Firecracker 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
06 — Combinations
Firecracker emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around firecracker 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
Central to Lunar New Year tradition in one culture, and separately a common English idiom for a fiery temperament.
Firecrackers are set off to scare off the mythical Nian and mark the new year.
Calling someone a “firecracker” describes a feisty personality, sometimes with a patronizing edge.
Before you send it: Great for Lunar New Year messages; think twice before using it to describe a person’s temper.
09 — Apps
What 🧨 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F9E8, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
11 — History
Where the 🧨 Firecracker emoji came from
Approved as part of Emoji 11.0, the firecracker has been on phones for years now — counting from its release, 8.
Same character every time — U+1F9E8 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.
Firecracker was approved as U+1F9E8 and shipped in Emoji 11.0 (2018). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
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.
12 — FAQ