🪃

Boomerang Emoji 🪃

A curved throwing stick of the returning kind, the design most associated with Aboriginal Australians, which Unicode added in 2020. It's typed for anything that comes back around: karma catching up, an ex resurfacing, a decision that boomerangs straight back at whoever made it.

What 🪃 means

A wooden boomerang that's slightly curved in between, leaving the same amount of space on either side. Both ends of this design have two bands each; yellow and red.

The 🪃 Boomerang emoji suggests the game and the act of playing boomerang. This emoji could also signify circular motion, returning, the concept of and belief in karma, and Newton's third law of motion too.

How and when to use it

If you're posting a picture or video with a caption that aligns with the idea of things or people returning, you can use 🪃. For example, "Throw all that you have into the universe and what comes back is yours 🪃".
You can also use 🪃 to suggest rebounding or backfiring in any context. For instance, "You do understand that this stupid game you're playing with his emotion, will come back to smack you in the face, right? 🪃".
As mentioned in the previous section, 🪃 can also be used in the framework of karma. Like, "All that goes around, comes around 🪃. Be mindful of what you let go and hold on to".
If you're posting or reposting an eye-opening video about karma, a mindful post one's actions, etc, you can use 🪃 in the caption - "A payback is an inevitable consequence of any action🪃".

Other Names

🪃 Rebound
🪃 Reverse
🪃 Recoil
🪃 Backfire
🪃 Karma
🪃 Return
🪃 Come Back
🪃 Ricochet

The lowdown

Category: Objects › tool
Codepoints: U+1FA83
Emoji version: Emoji 13.0
Shortcodes: :boomerang:
Keywords: boomerang, rebound, repercussion, weapon

How it looks across platforms

Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.