Balloon
Your device cannot show this emoji yet. It still copies, and newer phones will show it.
- Shortcode
:balloon:- Unicode
U+1F388- HTML
🎈- CSS
\1F388- JavaScript
"\u{1F388}"- URL
%F0%9F%8E%88
What ๐ means
Birthdays, parties and light-hearted fun, all in one red balloon on a string.
Birthday wishes almost always invite it, often with ๐ and ๐. It can also suggest floating free, or something slipping away, if paired with a wistful message.
Facts
Balloon ๐ is an emoji in the activities category, under event. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :balloon:. People also look for it with words like โbirthdayโ, โcelebrateโ, or โcelebrationโ.
Timeline
- 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2015
2017
2020
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2014
2016
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.