Collision Emoji
Copy 💥 with one click, or read what it means and how to type it below.
What does 💥 mean?
A comic-book explosion. Impact, shock, or something landing hard.
💥 is the collision emoji. It belongs to the Smileys & Emotion group, in the emotion set, and was approved as part of Emoji 0.6.
People also search for it as bomb, boom, collide, comic, explode.
How to use 💥
Marks a big reveal or a decisive point. Also used literally for collisions and explosions in news contexts.
Click the copy button above to put 💥 on your clipboard, then paste it anywhere Unicode is supported — WhatsApp, Instagram, TikTok, Discord, Slack, email, or a document. On Slack, Discord and GitHub you can also type the shortcode :boom: directly.
Good to know
Its Unicode name is “collision”, not “explosion” — the older name “collision symbol” is why it sometimes appears oddly labelled in older keyboards.
Technical details
| Name | Collision |
|---|---|
| Character | 💥 |
| Codepoint | U+1F4A5 |
| HTML entity | 💥 |
| CSS code | \1F4A5 |
| Shortcode | :boom: :collision: |
| Category | Smileys & Emotion |
| Subgroup | emotion |
| Emoji version | Emoji 0.6 |
| Keywords | bomb, boom, collide, comic, explode |