🎃 Jack-O-Lantern

🎃 Jack-O-Lantern is one of the celebrations in Unicode's Activities group. Typical contexts are celebration, halloween, jack and lantern. Unicode also files it under pumpkin, which shows how widely it is read.

🎃 fits messaging apps, social networks and anywhere a short visual cue helps. On SmileyZone it is filed under Weather and Seasons. It joined the standard with Emoji 0.6 in 2010, so support on current devices is reliable. Its code point is U+1F383.

• 🎃 works as a one-character reply when celebration is the subject.
• 🍂🎃 – Autumn mood, pumpkin season, Halloween.
• Often seen near 🎄 Christmas Tree, 🎇 Sparkler and 🎆 Fireworks.

The hollowed pumpkin goes back to the Irish Jack O’Lantern – originally carved from turnips. Irish emigrants in North America switched to pumpkins because they were larger, softer and cheaper there.

Halloween itself has roots in the Celtic festival of Samhain and travelled back to Europe by way of the United States, where it has been celebrated increasingly since the 1990s – not without objection, since in Catholic regions it collides with All Saints’ Day.

• 🍂🎃 – Autumn mood, pumpkin season, Halloween.
• 🎃🎍 – Jack-O-Lantern and Pine Decoration
• 🎃✨ – Jack-O-Lantern with Sparkles
• 🎃🎈 – Jack-O-Lantern plus Balloon
• 🎃🧨 – Jack-O-Lantern and Firecracker
• 🎃🎄 – Jack-O-Lantern with Christmas Tree

Easy to mix up with 🎄 Christmas Tree, 🎇 Sparkler or 🎆 Fireworks. They sit in the same Unicode subgroup and look similar at small sizes, so it is worth checking the name before sending.