A red cylinder with a hose and a pressure gauge, kept around for the one job it's built to do: knock down a fire before it spreads. In practice it gets typed for a metaphorical blaze as often as a literal one, a meltdown at work, a group chat argument, wherever someone's stepping in to handle it.
What 🧯 means
A red cylinder labelled with 🔥 Fire on the front, fitted with a hose that runs to a valve assembly whose pressure gauge sits either on the valve or just below it.
The 🧯 Fire Extinguisher emoji represents the equipment needed to put out a fire or in other words, to extinguish it. It could symbolize a savior or the act of saving, a solution, or a party pooper steeling everyone's fire.
How and when to use it
- If you're trying to "put out" someone's hype, texting someone about how someone else tried to put out yours, or even a post caption about the same, use 🧯.
- Instances for the previous use-case: "You don't always have to hype everything, you know 🧯", "Can you believe it?? She tried to put out the entire party just coz SHE was PMSing 🧯", or "Not my thunder, nor my fire, you can't dare steal anything that belongs to me 🧯".
- While sharing content that's fiery, empowering, badass, and overall hot (not everything's physical), you can bring in 🧯. Like, "Can the fire team come in here already??? The temperature's pretty sure a HUNDRED 🧯" (usable for both, positive and negative connotations).
- Anything or anyone that puts out, or waits to put out something intense can be translated into a fire extinguisher. So, if you're referring to something or someone like this, shy not from using 🧯 - "Does he ALWAYS have to ruin the vibe? 🧯".
Other Names
- 🧯 Handheld Fire Extinguisher
- 🧯 Emergency
- 🧯 Break Open In Case of Emergency
- 🧯 Fire
- 🧯 Trolley-Mounted Extinguisher
- 🧯 Extinguisher Ball
- 🧯 Fire Extinguisher Ball
- 🧯 Foam Fire Extinguisher
The lowdown
- Category
- Objects › household
- Codepoints
U+1F9EF- Emoji version
- Emoji 11.0
- Shortcodes
:fire_extinguisher:- Keywords
- extinguish, extinguisher, fire, quench
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.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🧯 Fire Extinguisher or 🤔 Thinking Face?
Runs with a crowd
🧯 keeps company in fire emojis and red emojis — tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.