U+1F52B Pistol
U+1F52B was added to Unicode in version 6.0 (2010). It belongs to the block Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs in the Supplementary Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. The character is also known as handgun and revolver.
The glyph is not a composition. It has a Wide East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Other Neutral and is not mirrored. In text U+1F52B behaves as Ideographic regarding line breaks. It has type Other for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.
The CLDR project labels this character “water pistol” for use in screen reading software. It assigns additional tags, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: gun, handgun, pistol, revolver, tool, water, weapon.
This character is designated as an emoji. It will be rendered as colorful emoji on conforming platforms. To reduce it to a monochrome character, you can combine it with Variation Selector-15: 🔫︎ See the Emojipedia for more details on this character’s emoji properties.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
The Pistol emoji (🔫) is an emoji usually displayed as a green or orange toy gun or water gun, but displayed as a handgun on some older systems. In 2016, the emoji faced controversy due to its perceived meanings. In the same year, Apple replaced its realistic revolver design with a toy. In 2018, most major platforms also followed to change the emoji. The use of pistol emojis has also resulted in several arrests and imprisonment based on credible threats.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 128299 |
| UTF-8 | F0 9F 94 AB |
| UTF-16 | D8 3D DD 2B |
| UTF-32 | 00 01 F5 2B |
| URL-Quoted | %F0%9F%94%AB |
| HTML hex reference | 🔫 |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | 🔫 |
| alias | handgun |
| alias | revolver |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
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| 6.0 (2010) | |
| PISTOL | |
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| Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows | |
| Other Symbol | |
| Common | |
| Other Neutral | |
| Not Reordered | |
| None | |
| Pistol | |
| ✘ | |
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| Pistol | |
| Any | |
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| NA | |
| Other | |
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| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Pistol | |
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| Other | |
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| Pistol | |
| None | |
| Wide | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Ideographic | |
| None | |
| not a number | |
| Pistol | |
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