Meaning
This joyful face wears a colorful party hat (often pointed and spiral-patterned) and displays a huge, gleeful grin with sometimes a tongue poking out. Often confetti or streamers surround it, and the overall energy screams celebration and unrestrained happiness. It's pure festive exuberance captured in emoji form.
Use the partying face for birthdays, achievements, promotions, new jobs, or basically any milestone worth celebrating. It's perfect for announcing good news, congratulating friends, or expressing genuine excitement about upcoming events. People also use it whenever they're anticipating fun—planning a vacation, weekend plans, or party invitations.
On social media, you'll see it flooding birthday posts, celebration announcements, and motivational content about accomplishments. It's become the go-to for adding celebratory energy to messages without needing to say the words outright. It pairs naturally with other celebration emoji like balloons, confetti, and cake.
The party hat design is remarkably consistent across platforms, making it instantly readable. Approved as part of Unicode Emoji 11.0 in 2018, the partying face filled a specific celebratory niche by combining the human face (which reads as relatable) with party iconography, making it feel more personal than just using decorative emoji alone.
Common Uses
- • Celebrating birthdays and milestones
- • Congratulating someone on good news
- • Expressing excitement about upcoming events
- • Marking promotions, graduations, or achievements
Popular Combos
Did You Know?
The partying face emoji became TikTok's unofficial birthday emoji—you'll see it flooded into comments whenever someone announces their birthday in a video.
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Technical Reference
Platform Shortcodes
:partying_face: :partying_face: :partying_face: Developer Codes
| HTML (decimal) | 🥳 |
| HTML (hex) | 🥳 |
| CSS | \1F973 |
| JavaScript | \uD83E\uDD73 |
| Python | \U0001F973 |
| Java | \uD83E\uDD73 |
| Perl | \x{1F973} |
| PHP / Ruby | \x{1F973} |
| Punycode | xn--2rub |
| URL Encoded | %F0%9F%A5%B3 |
| UTF-8 Bytes | 0xF0 0x9F 0xA5 0xB3 |
🥳 in 28 languages
Names sourced from Unicode CLDR and emojibase.
| Language | Name |
|---|---|
| Bengali | টুপি পরে বাঁশি বাজিয়ে পার্টি উদযাপন করা মুখ |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 聚会笑脸 |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 慶祝的表情 |
| Danish | festansigt |
| Dutch | feestend gezicht |
| English | partying face |
| English (UK) | partying face |
| Estonian | pidutsev nägu |
| Finnish | juhliva |
| French | visage festif |
| German | Partygesicht |
| Hindi | उत्सवी चेहरा |
| Hungarian | bulizó arc |
| Italian | faccina che festeggia |
| Japanese | パーティーの顔 |
| Korean | 파티하는 얼굴 |
| Lithuanian | švenčiantis veidas |
| Malay | muka berparti |
| Norwegian | partyfjes |
| Polish | świętująca twarz |
| Portuguese | rosto festivo |
| Russian | на вечеринке |
| Spanish | cara de fiesta |
| Spanish (Mexico) | cara de fiesta |
| Swedish | festande ansikte |
| Thai | ไปปาร์ตี้ |
| Ukrainian | святкове обличчя |
| Vietnamese | mặt tiệc tùng |