U+1F388 "🎈" Balloon Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🎈
U+1F388 "🎈" Balloon is a pictographic representation of a classic party balloon, typically depicted as a single, brightly colored, inflated latex balloon with a tied knot at the base and a short string trailing beneath it. This character is part of the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block and is widely used in digital communication to symbolize celebrations, birthdays, parties, joy, and festivity. It can also convey a sense of lightheartedness, childhood nostalgia, or the idea of "letting go" of something, depending on the context of the message.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F388 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Balloon |
| Block | Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 🎈 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 🎈 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9F 0x8E 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83C 0xDF88 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F388 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83c\udf88 |