Water pistol

A toy water gun on most current platforms. People use it for water fights, playful threats and finger-gun gestures.

Summer pool parties use it plainly. In banter it means a mock shot, as in "🔫 don't test me," and with a sly face it can mean "gotcha."

Older devices show a real revolver, so the sender and the reader may see very different images. Avoid it where tone could be misread.

Facts

Water pistol 🔫 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 :gun: or :water_pistol:. People also look for it with words like “gun”, “handgun”, “pistol”, or “revolver”.

Timeline

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

Design history

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

activities · Unicode 6.0