🪃Boomerang Emoji
Generally, it means "returning" or “coming back. ” It’s often used to playfully suggest something will circle back around.
The 🪃 emoji represents a boomerang.
- Unicode
- U+1FA83
- Released
- 2020
- Shortcode
- :boomerang:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🪃 Boomerang emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
Boomerang emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1FA83. 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.
Boomerang emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :boomerang:.
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+1FA83.
How to type the 🪃 Boomerang emoji
No picker to hand? The boomerang can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
Boomerang 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
Boomerang emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around boomerang 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 boomerang and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
What 🪃 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
The character is the same everywhere, but the artwork and the reading of it change from app to app.
Where the 🪃 Boomerang emoji came from
When it was approved, which release it landed in, and how long phones have had it.
Same character every time — U+1FA83 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.
Boomerang was approved as U+1FA83 and shipped in Emoji 13.0 (2020). 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.