Fire Emoji
Copy 🔥 with one click, or read what it means and how to type it below.
What does 🔥 mean?
Something is excellent — a track, an outfit, a photo, a take. “Fire” as praise predates the emoji in hip-hop slang.
🔥 is the fire emoji. It belongs to the Travel & Places group, in the sky weather set, and was approved as part of Emoji 0.6.
People also search for it as af, burn, flame, hot, lit, litaf, tool.
How to use 🔥
Extremely common in comments and captions, frequently doubled or tripled. Also used literally in weather, cooking, and news contexts, and to mark a streak in apps like Snapchat and Duolingo.
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 :fire: directly.
Good to know
One of the few emojis whose slang meaning is now more common than its literal one.
Technical details
| Name | Fire |
|---|---|
| Character | 🔥 |
| Codepoint | U+1F525 |
| HTML entity | 🔥 |
| CSS code | \1F525 |
| Shortcode | :fire: |
| Category | Travel & Places |
| Subgroup | sky weather |
| Emoji version | Emoji 0.6 |
| Keywords | af, burn, flame, hot, lit, litaf, tool |