A carved pumpkin with a jagged grin and a candle glowing inside — that's the jack-o'-lantern emoji. It's Halloween in a single icon, used for trick-or-treating, spooky-season plans, and any costume or candy talk from October onward, with basically no other meaning attached.
What 🎃 means
A carved orange pumpkin with a pair of round eyes, a triangular nose, and a mouth with tooth carvings. There's also a short, thick green stalk on top. Sometimes, these carvings are shown with a light placed within thus lighting the whole vegetable.
The 🎃 Jack-O-Lantern emoji represents the famous pumpkin that's seen almost everywhere during the Halloween season. Apart from this event, this emoji reflects the historic and current beliefs and practices of the jack-o-lanterns; warding off evil spirits, unrested souls and trick or treating!
How and when to use it
- First off, use 🎃 in every Halloween context; post/repost captions, text messages, social media stories, statuses, etc.
- Now, since 🎃 also falls into the brackets of the great spook, you can use this emoji even in general horror frameworks. For instance, "I'll tell you a real horror story? The tea I make 🎃 It's deadly fosho".
- Although its may not be Halloween season nor a Halloween post, you can still use 🎃 in post/repost captions if the subject revolves fright and horror; it can be a horror-based makeup video, a repost about a horror mystery, a link to a horror podcast, etc.
- Essentially, you can use 🎃 while sharing anything scary irrespective of the intensity; it can be "Haha you look like a ghost 🎃" or "Fuck. I think I saw a ghost 🎃".
Other Names
- 🎃 Pumpkin Lantern
- 🎃 Halloween Pumpkin
- 🎃 Gourd
- 🎃 Halloween
- 🎃 Pumpkin
- 🎃 Carved Pumpkin
- 🎃 Will-o'-the-Wisp
The lowdown
- Category
- Activities › event
- Codepoints
U+1F383- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.6
- Shortcodes
:jack_o_lantern:- Keywords
- celebration, halloween, jack, jack-o-lantern, lantern, pumpkin
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 — 🎃 Jack-o-lantern or 👁️ Eye?
Runs with a crowd
🎃 keeps company in halloween emojis and orange emojis and skull emojis — tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.