What ๐งโ๐ means
A person in a firefighter's helmet and coat, standing for firefighters, the fire service and emergency work.
People use it to thank fire crews, share safety news, or post about a station visit. At work it describes โputting out firesโ, meaning handling one urgent problem after another. Pair with ๐ ๐ฅ or ๐งฏ.
Facts
Firefighter ๐งโ๐ is an emoji in the people and body category, under person role. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 12.1, released in 2019. It is a sequence that joins ๐ง person and ๐ fire engine. Devices that do not know the sequence show those emoji side by side. It comes in five skin tones, from light to dark. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :firefighter:. People also look for it with words like โfireโ or โfiretruckโ.
Made of
๐ง+๐=๐งโ๐
Timeline
- 2019Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 12.1)
- 2019Arrived with five skin tones (Emoji 12.1)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2020
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2020
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.
people & body ยท Emoji 12.1