U+1F3B1 "🎱" Billiards Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🎱
U+1F3B1 "🎱" Billiards is a pictographic representation of the black 8 ball, which is the most iconic ball in the game of pool or billiards. This emoji is typically rendered as a dark, round sphere featuring a white circle with the number eight in its center, designating it as the crucial ball in eight ball pool. It is commonly used in digital communication to signify the game of billiards itself, luck or fate due to the superstition of the Magic 8 Ball toy, or simply a sense of mystery and chance. The character was officially added to the Unicode Standard in 2010 as part of the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block, making it widely available across platforms to represent leisure, sports, and playful decision making.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F3B1 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Billiards |
| 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 0xB1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83C 0xDFB1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F3B1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83c\udfb1 |