U+1F4A3 "💣" Bomb Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
💣
U+1F4A3 "💣" Bomb is a pictographic representation of a classic cartoon style bomb, typically depicted as a black or dark spherical object with a short, lit fuse protruding from the top. It falls under the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block and is widely used in digital communication to convey the literal concepts of explosives or destruction, but more commonly it serves as a metaphor for sudden impact, a dramatic revelation, or news that is figuratively explosive. The character also appears in contexts ranging from warning labels and commentary on volatile situations to humorous exaggerations of stress or anger, making it a versatile symbol in modern emoji lexicons.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F4A3 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bomb |
| 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 0x92 0xA3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83D 0xDCA3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F4A3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83d\udca3 |