U+1F9EF "🧯" Fire Extinguisher Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🧯
U+1F9EF "🧯" Fire Extinguisher is a pictographic symbol officially added to the Unicode Standard in 2018 as part of Emoji 11.0, designed to represent a portable device used to extinguish small fires, typically depicted as a red cylinder with a black hose, nozzle, and pressure gauge. It falls under the category of Objects and is commonly used in digital communication to signify fire safety, emergencies, or the act of putting out a metaphorical or literal "fire," such as stopping a crisis or conflict. Its inclusion reflects the growing need for diverse, practical symbols in modern text and messaging.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F9EF |
| Version Added | 11.0 |
| Name | Fire Extinguisher |
| Block | Supplemental 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 0xA7 0xAF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83E 0xDDEF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F9EF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83e\uddef |