Pool 8 ball

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Shortcode
:8ball:
Shortcode
:pool_8_ball:
Unicode
U+1F3B1
HTML
🎱
CSS
\1F3B1
JavaScript
"\u{1F3B1}"
URL
%F0%9F%8E%B1

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What ๐ŸŽฑ means

The black 8-ball from pool. It means billiards, and it also calls up the Magic 8 Ball toy that answers yes-or-no questions.

Pool nights use it plainly. "Ask the ๐ŸŽฑ" means leaving a choice to fate. "Behind the eight ball" means being in a tough spot.

Facts

Pool 8 ball ๐ŸŽฑ is an emoji in the activities category, under game. 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 :8ball: or :pool_8_ball:. People also look for it with words like โ€œ8โ€, โ€œ8ballโ€, โ€œballโ€, or โ€œbilliardโ€.

Timeline

  1. 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)

Design history

Google (Noto)

  1. pool 8 ball, Google (Noto) design from 20152015
  2. pool 8 ball, Google (Noto) design from 20172017
  3. pool 8 ball, Google (Noto) design from 20202020
  4. pool 8 ball, Google (Noto) design from 20212021

Twemoji (X, Discord)

  1. pool 8 ball, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20142014
  2. pool 8 ball, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20182018

Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.

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