Firecracker
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- Shortcode
:firecracker:- Unicode
U+1F9E8- HTML
🧨- CSS
\1F9E8- JavaScript
"\u{1F9E8}"- URL
%F0%9F%A7%A8
What ๐งจ means
A red firecracker with a lit fuse, which many people read as a stick of dynamite. It means firecrackers and Lunar New Year, and figuratively something explosive: drama, a bold take, or a person with big energy.
Lunar New Year greetings pair it with ๐งง and ๐ฎ. In gossip or debates it signals "this is about to blow up," and in reviews it praises a hit ("this album is ๐งจ").
Facts
Firecracker ๐งจ is an emoji in the activities category, under event. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 11.0, released in 2018. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :firecracker:. People also look for it with words like โdynamiteโ, โexplosiveโ, โfireโ, or โfireworksโ.
Timeline
- 2018Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 11.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2018
2021
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2018
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.