Boomerang Emoji 🪃
Emoji Meaning
A boomerang is a tool that when launched flies back to its owner. It was initially used by Australian Aboriginal people as a hunting weapon. The emoji may represent the idea of reciprocation or repercussions, i.e. something coming back at you.
The symbol “Boomerang” is included in the “Toys and sport symbols” subblock of the “Symbols and Pictographs Extended-A” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 13.0 in 2020. In 2020, it was also approved as an Emoji in version 13.0 and added to the “Tool” subcategory of the “Objects” category.
| Unicode Name | Boomerang |
| Unicode Number | |
| HTML Code | |
| CSS Code | |
| Plane | 1: Supplementary Multilingual Plane |
| Unicode Block | Symbols and Pictographs Extended-A |
| Unicode Subblock | Toys and sport symbols |
| Unicode Version | 13.0 (2020) |
| Emoji Version | 13.0 (2020) |
| Emoji Category | Objects |
| Emoji Subcategory | Tool |
| Emoji Name | Boomerang |
| Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) | None |
| Composition Exclusion | No |
| Case change | 1FA83 |
| Simple case change | 1FA83 |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | F0 9F AA 83 | 240 159 170 131 | 4036995715 | 11110000 10011111 10101010 10000011 |
| UTF-16BE | D8 3E DE 83 | 216 62 222 131 | 3627998851 | 11011000 00111110 11011110 10000011 |
| UTF-16LE | 3E D8 83 DE | 62 216 131 222 | 1054376926 | 00111110 11011000 10000011 11011110 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 01 FA 83 | 0 1 250 131 | 129667 | 00000000 00000001 11111010 10000011 |
| UTF-32LE | 83 FA 01 00 | 131 250 1 0 | 2214199552 | 10000011 11111010 00000001 00000000 |
