🧯Fire Extinguisher Emoji
Generally, it just means a fire extinguisher. People use it to reference situations where something needs to be contained or stopped.
The 🧯 emoji is a fire extinguisher.
- Unicode
- U+1F9EF
- Released
- 2018
- Shortcode
- :fire_extinguisher:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🧯 Fire Extinguisher emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 4 of them.
Fire Extinguisher emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F9EF — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your fire extinguisher 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.
Fire Extinguisher emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :fire_extinguisher:.
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+1F9EF.
How to type the 🧯 Fire Extinguisher emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
Fire Extinguisher 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
Fire Extinguisher emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around fire extinguisher 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
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
What 🧯 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F9EF, 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: Fire Extinguisher
Code: U+1F9EF · added 2018
Shortcode: :fire_extinguisher:
Generally, it just means a fire extinguisher.
Unicode name: Woman Firefighter
Code: U+1F469 U+200D U+1F692 · added 2016
Shortcode: :female-firefighter:
Generally, it means someone admires or appreciates a female firefighter.
Where the 🧯 Fire Extinguisher emoji came from
Approved as part of Emoji 11.0, the fire extinguisher has been on phones for years now — counting from its release, 8.
Same character every time — U+1F9EF 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.
Fire Extinguisher was approved as U+1F9EF 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.