fire Emoji
🔥 · U+1F525 · Emoji 0.6
What does the fire emoji mean?
Meaning reviewed and updated July 2026 · Unicode data from the official Unicode Standard
The fire emoji 🔥 means something is impressive, attractive or trending, as in "that outfit is fire". It can also mean literal flame, heat or that someone is "lit".
How to copy the fire emoji
To use the fire emoji, tap the Copy button above, then paste it (long-press then Paste on mobile, or Ctrl+V / Cmd+V on desktop) anywhere you can type: messages, captions, usernames, bios and documents. It copies the real Unicode character (U+1F525), so it works on every app and platform, no download needed.
More about fire
Also known as
fire emoji on different platforms
How the fire emoji looks across emoji sets. These designs come from openly-licensed sets (Twemoji, Google Noto, OpenMoji). See image credits.
fire Emoji Details
| Emoji | 🔥 |
| Name | fire |
| Category | Travel & Places |
| Codepoints | U+1F525 |
| Shortcode | :fire: |
| Emoji version | 0.6 |
| Unicode version | 0.6 |
fire Emoji FAQ
The fire emoji 🔥 means something is impressive, attractive or trending, as in "that outfit is fire". It can also mean literal flame, heat or that someone is "lit".
Tap the Copy button at the top of this page, then paste 🔥 wherever you type. Because it copies the real Unicode character, it works in every app on iPhone, Android, Windows and Mac.
It is U+1F525, introduced in Emoji version 0.6 (Unicode 0.6). Its shortcode is :fire:.
People also search for the fire emoji as burn, flame, hot, lit, litaf.