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U+1F388 CHARACTER

BALLOON

Quick Facts

Unicode Name BALLOON
Code Point U+1F388
Decimal Value 127880
General Category Other Symbol (So) →
Unicode Block Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs →
Script Common →
Unicode Version Unicode 6.0 →
Unicode Plane Supplementary Multilingual Plane (SMP)

Byte Encodings

UTF-8 4 bytes F0 9F 8E 88
UTF-16 Surrogate Pair D83C DF88
High: U+D83C (\uD83C) Low: U+DF88 (\uDF88)
UTF-32 4 bytes 0001F388
UTF-16BE / LE Byte Order
BE: D8 3C DF 88 LE: 3C D8 88 DF
UTF-32BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 00 01 F3 88 LE: 88 F3 01 00

Developer Code Escapes

HTML Decimal 🎈
HTML Hexadecimal 🎈
HTML Named Entity None
CSS Escape \01F388
JavaScript (ES6) \u{1F388}
JavaScript (UTF-16) \uD83C\uDF88
JSON Escape \uD83C\uDF88
Python \U0001F388
PHP "\u{1F388}"
Java "\uD83C\uDF88"
C / C++ "\U0001F388"
Rust '\u{1f388}'
URL Percent-Encoded %F0%9F%8E%88

Normalization & Decomposition

Combining Class 0 โ€” Not Reordered (Spacing)
Decomposition None (Canonical / Precomposed Base)
NFC / NFD Forms Stable under all Unicode normalization forms (NFC, NFD, NFKC, NFKD).

Bidirectional Properties

Bidi Class ON โ€” Other Neutral
Bidi Mirrored No

Font Specimen & Rendering

Visual rendering of U+1F388 across standard system font stacks. Rendering fidelity depends on installed OS font glyph coverage.

Sans-Serif System UI, Inter, Arial
๐ŸŽˆ
Context: A ๐ŸŽˆ Z 123
Serif Georgia, Times, Cambria
๐ŸŽˆ
Context: A ๐ŸŽˆ Z 123
Monospace Consolas, SF Mono, Courier
๐ŸŽˆ
Context: A ๐ŸŽˆ Z 123
System Default Operating System Glyph Fallback
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Context: A ๐ŸŽˆ Z 123

Names & Aliases

Official Name BALLOON

The normative, immutable character identifier in the Unicode Character Database.

Identifier U+1F388

Related Characters & Collections

๐ŸŽˆ
Emoji Equivalent Participates in emoji sequences as BALLOON.
View Emoji โ†’
๐ŸŽˆ
Curated Symbol Collection Curated in CopyCharacter's BALLOON symbol library.
View Symbol โ†’