Emoji
(BILLIARDS): meaning and Unicode code
Meaning of the emoji
(BILLIARDS), Unicode code, HTML entity, and usage examples. Copy the symbol with one click.

Information about emoji BILLIARDS
- Unicode Name
- BILLIARDS
- Unicode Codepoint
- U+1F3B1
- Category
- Activities & Sports
- Subcategory
- game
- Slug
- 8ball
Meaning and description of emoticon 🎱
🎱 depicts a black billiard ball with the number 8 — the key ball of the game around which everything revolves. Classified under Activities in Unicode.
🎱 conveys competitive excitement, a shot at victory, and a precise strike — "I'm aiming to win" or "precision matters here." It's commonly paired with 🎯, 🏆, or 💪, and in messages it reads as "This calls for cold calculation and a precise shot 🎱" and fits well in conversations about games and competitive excitement. The black ball often means not billiards as such but focus before the decisive stroke.
Usage Examples 🎱
| Format | Code | |
|---|---|---|
| Shortcode (Slack) | :8ball: | |
| Shortcode (Discord) | :8ball: | |
| Shortcode (GitHub) | :8ball: | |
| HTML Dec | 🎱 | |
| HTML Hex | 🎱 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F3B1"; | |
| C, C++, Python | \U0001F3B1 | |
| Java, JavaScript & JSON | \uD83C\uDFB1 | |
| Perl | \x{1F3B1} | |
| PHP & Ruby | \u{1F3B1} | |
| Punycode | xn--il8h | |
| URL Escape Code | %F0%9F%8E%B1 | |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | F0 9F 8E B1 |