Try Partying Face emoji
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Meaning & usage
What does the Partying Face emoji mean?
Celebration with a party horn and hat.
Unmistakably celebratory. The hat, confetti and party horn make it stronger than a simple smile and ideal for birthdays, launches and milestones.
How to use 🥳 naturally
Birthdays, launches, milestones.
Face emoji usually carry more tone than literal information. Read them alongside the words, the relationship between the people, and whether the conversation is playful, formal or tense.
From standard to slang
The history of 🥳
- 2018
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Partying Face was first defined as emoji in Emoji 11.0, dated 2018. The first release under the current annual numbering.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
A party hat, a horn and paper streamers around a grinning face. It packs an entire celebration into a single character instead of pairing a face with 🎉.
- Today
How its use evolved
Birthdays, launches, milestones.
Dates follow Unicode’s official Emoji Versions chart. Versions before Emoji 1.0 are labelled retrospectively. See the history of emoji.
In conversation
Examples of 🥳 in messages
These examples show the emoji in complete messages, where the words make its intended tone easier to read.
You got the job! 🥳
Happy birthday! 🥳
Version 1.0 is finally live 🥳
When to use it
Using 🥳 clearly
Birthdays, launches, milestones. It lands as party or birthday when the rest of the message supports that reading, and it is the surrounding words that do the deciding — so in a sensitive, professional or cross-cultural conversation, say the thing outright as well.
Common questions
About the partying face emoji
What does 🥳 mean in a text message?
Celebration with a party horn and hat. Unmistakably celebratory. The hat, confetti and party horn make it stronger than a simple smile and ideal for birthdays, launches and milestones.
Is 🥳 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are party, birthday, celebrate, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 🥳 look different on another device?
U+1F973 identifies the emoji; the picture is a font, drawn separately by Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung. Only the artwork changes, never the character.
How do I copy and paste the partying face emoji?
Use the copy button at the top of this page. 🥳 is a character, not an image, so it pastes into messages, captions and filenames as ordinary text.
When was the partying face emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 🥳 as emoji in Emoji 11.0, dated 2018. Early emoji version numbers can be retrospective, so this date describes its place in the standardised emoji set rather than the first-ever appearance of the underlying symbol.
For developers
🥳 in code
Every value below is generated from the character itself, so it stays correct even where a file encoding cannot hold the emoji directly.
| Format | Value | When to use it | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+1F973 | The standard reference. Use it to search a character map or a spec. | |
| HTML (hex) | 🥳 | For HTML and XML. Safe in files that are not saved as UTF-8. | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🥳 | The same reference in decimal. Both render identically. | |
| CSS | \1F973 | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F973} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%A5%B3 | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F973
- Category
- Smileys & Emotion
- Also known as
- partybirthdaycelebrate
Put it in a message
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