Confetti in the air, a party hat, and a horn mid-blow: partying face packs a whole celebration into one crowded image. Birthdays, promotions, good news, a random Friday — it shows up anywhere the occasion is festive enough to earn some noise.
What 🥳 means
A yellow face with warm, happy eyes and a scrunched mouth blowing a party horn. It also has a party hat on one side of the head and confetti sprinkled all over the face.
The 🥳 Partying Face emoji signifies happiness, excitement, cheer, and an overall good vibe. It is frequently used in birthday wishes over texts and also as reactions to something celebratory.
How and when to use it
- Use this emoji while sending happy birthday texts or any other such wishes.
- You can also incorporate this emoji in conversations about achievements, like "Yaay! You made it! 🥳".
- This emoji can also be used in non-celebratory scenarios, such as in good riddance conversations or chats about overcoming a terrible phase, etc.
- You can bring in this emoji in discussions about a party or any form of gathering that you're truly excited about.
Other Names
- 🥳 Excited Face
- 🥳 Party Face
- 🥳 Yaay!
- 🥳 Happy Birthday
- 🥳 Face With Party Hat and Party Horn
- 🥳 Celebration
- 🥳 Happy
- 🥳 Happy Face
- 🥳 Happy Anniversary
- 🥳 Cheer
- 🥳 Cheering Face
- 🥳 Celebrate
🥳 in real conversations
What does 🥳 mean?
Celebration — the party horn, confetti, and cone hat spell out "let's go." It shows up on birthdays, promotions, exam results, and basically any news worth a toast.
When do people use 🥳?
Birthdays are the single biggest use case, followed by any milestone: new job, graduation, a hard week finally ending. It's the emoji equivalent of popping a party popper.
What does 🥳 mean in texting?
"Yay, congrats" with visible enthusiasm. It's warmer and louder than a simple 🎉, since it's a whole face celebrating rather than just the decorations — the reaction of someone genuinely happy for you, not just acknowledging the news.
The lowdown
- Category
- Smileys & Emotion › face-hat
- Codepoints
U+1F973- Emoji version
- Emoji 11.0
- Shortcodes
:partying_face:- Keywords
- bday, birthday, celebrate, celebration, excited, face, happy, hat, hooray, horn, party, partying
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.
Pairs well with
Tap any combo to copy the whole thing.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🥳 Partying Face or 🌤️ Sun Behind Small Cloud?
Runs with a crowd
🥳 keeps company in baisakhi emojis and birthday emojis and happy emojis and holi emojis and new year's eve emojis and songkran emojis — tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.