🎊

Confetti Ball Emoji 🎊

A round paper ball bursting open with confetti and streamers — that's the confetti-ball emoji, based on the Japanese 'kusudama' used at celebrations. It reads almost identically to the party popper: congratulations, milestones, good news worth celebrating, though it leans slightly more toward full-blown party atmosphere than a quick 'nice one.'

What 🎊 means

A pair of yellow or golden bell-like cups either tied together, with confetti, colorful strings, and streamers falling from between. The 🎊 Confetti Ball emoji represents celebration, appreciation, excitement, and congratulations too.

How and when to use it

If someone sent you something that definitely needs 'congratulations!' as a response, you could back up the mundane word with 🎊 along with other related emojis, such as the 🎉 Party Popper.
If you're making a celebratory announcement, either via direct messages (DMs) or social media stories or posts, you can use 🎊 in those contexts. Like, "She said YES!!! 🎊🎊🎊".
While sharing memories from your big day(s) on your social media handle, then too, 🎊 comes handy in the caption. It enhances the emotion you're trying to convey through the pictures and the caption.
Apart from birthdays, anniversaries, weddings, etc, etc, 🎊 can be used in many other contexts of a celebration as well; discount offers, sale reposts. For example, "The 70% sale is on till the end of this month! Could we JUST go??! PLEASE??!! 🎊🎊".

Other Names

🎊 Confetti
🎊 Party Poppers
🎊 Celebration
🎊 Party Ball
🎊 Confetti and Streamers
🎊 Party
🎊 Congratulations

The lowdown

Category: Activities › event
Codepoints: U+1F38A
Emoji version: Emoji 0.6
Shortcodes: :confetti_ball:
Keywords: ball, celebrate, celebration, confetti, party, woohoo

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.