Water Pistol Emoji 🔫
Emoji Meaning
A toy water gun. Major platforms feature a green or orange pistol with an orange tip. Initially it was shown as a realistic gun, like a true weapon. In 2016 Apple switched from weapons to toys, and by 2018 other platforms had followed the trend.
The symbol “Water Pistol” is included in the “Tool symbols” subblock of the “Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 6.0 in 2010. In 2015, it was also approved as an Emoji in version 1.0 and added to the “Game” subcategory of the “Activities” category.
Synonyms
gun, revolver, squirt gun, water gun, water pistol.
| Unicode Name | Pistol |
| Unicode Number | |
| HTML Code | |
| CSS Code | |
| Plane | 1: Supplementary Multilingual Plane |
| Unicode Block | Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs |
| Unicode Subblock | Tool symbols |
| Unicode Version | 6.0 (2010) |
| Emoji Version | 1.0 (2015) |
| Emoji Category | Activities |
| Emoji Subcategory | Game |
| Emoji Name | Water Pistol |
| Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) | None |
| Composition Exclusion | No |
| Case change | 1F52B |
| Simple case change | 1F52B |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | F0 9F 94 AB | 240 159 148 171 | 4036990123 | 11110000 10011111 10010100 10101011 |
| UTF-16BE | D8 3D DD 2B | 216 61 221 43 | 3627932971 | 11011000 00111101 11011101 00101011 |
| UTF-16LE | 3D D8 2B DD | 61 216 43 221 | 1037577181 | 00111101 11011000 00101011 11011101 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 01 F5 2B | 0 1 245 43 | 128299 | 00000000 00000001 11110101 00101011 |
| UTF-32LE | 2B F5 01 00 | 43 245 1 0 | 737476864 | 00101011 11110101 00000001 00000000 |
