The party face emoji is 🥳, U+1F973, added in Emoji 11.0 in 2018. Unicode names it Partying face; its character name is FACE WITH PARTY HORN AND PARTY HAT. It stands between 🤠 Cowboy hat face and 🥸 Disguised face.
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Hat and horn in the name, confetti in the drawing
By Wikipedia a party hat is most typically a cone of thin paperboard with an elastic chinstrap, and a party horn is a paper noisemaker that unfurls when blown into. Emojipedia’s description of the drawing adds a third thing: confetti floating around the head.
Emoji party face, by its search words
CLDR, Unicode’s list of search words, gives 🥳 twelve, among them party, birthday, bday, celebrate, hooray and horn. Bday leads to this face and 🎂 only, horn to this face and 📯 Postal horn, hooray to three emoji. 🎉 Party popper is the only other character with PARTY in its Unicode name.
Wikipedia records that the word for a party horn in several languages translates as mother-in-law’s tongue: Portuguese língua de sogra is one.
Wiktionary’s entry for party pooper tells readers to distinguish it from party popper. The combo Spoilsport is the first; the second is an emoji.
Questions and answers
What does the party face emoji mean?
CLDR files it under celebrate, celebration, birthday, happy and excited, so it reads as a party, a birthday or good news. It is one yellow face: Unicode lists no skin tone and no other form of it.
Is there an emoji with a party hat on its own?
No emoji is named party hat or party horn; both come only on 🥳. CLDR files hat under other emoji, 🎩 Top hat, 👒 Woman’s hat and 🎓 Graduation cap among them. The drawings here have the cone.
How do you type a party face?
Wikipedia’s list of emoticons has none. Sideways, <|:-D is a party hat over a grin. Upright, (^3^)=@ purses its lips on a horn still rolled up, and (>3<)===== blows it out straight.
All 53 items
Hat, horn and hooray 6
🎂Birthday cakeU+1F382. Filed under bday, as Partying face is and no other emoji. Emoji 0.6.
🤠Cowboy hat faceU+1F920. The emoji before Partying face in Unicode’s list: the first of its three faces with hats. Emoji 3.0.
🥸Disguised faceU+1F978. The emoji after Partying face and the last of the three faces with hats: glasses, nose and moustache. Emoji 13.0.
🥳Partying faceU+1F973. The party face emoji. Its Unicode character name is FACE WITH PARTY HORN AND PARTY HAT. Filed under party, birthday, celebrate and hooray. Emoji 11.0.
📯Postal hornU+1F4EF. Filed under horn, as Partying face is and no other emoji. Emoji 1.0.
🙌Raising handsU+1F64C. Filed under hooray, with Partying face and Party popper. Emoji 0.6.
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Filed under party 11
🎊Confetti ballU+1F38A. Filed under party and confetti. Unicode’s names list glosses it congratulations. Emoji 0.6.
😛Face with tongueU+1F61B. Filed under party, with awesome and cool. Emoji 1.0.
🪇MaracasU+1FA87. Filed under party, with dance and shake. Emoji 15.0.
👯♂️Men with bunny earsU+1F46F U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F. The men’s form. Filed under party and partying. Emoji 4.0.
🪩Mirror ballU+1FAA9. Filed under party, with disco and dance. Emoji 14.0.
🎉Party popperU+1F389. The only other character with PARTY in its Unicode name. Filed under party, tada and woohoo. Emoji 0.6.
👯People with bunny earsU+1F46F. Filed under party and partying, with twin and bestie. Its Unicode character name is WOMAN WITH BUNNY EARS. Emoji 0.6.
🪅PiñataU+1FA85. Filed under party, celebrate and candy. Emoji 13.0.
😜Winking face with tongueU+1F61C. Filed under party, with joke and wacky. Emoji 0.6.
👒Woman’s hatU+1F452. Filed under party and under garden. Emoji 0.6.
👯♀️Women with bunny earsU+1F46F U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F. The women’s form. Filed under party and partying. Emoji 4.0.
Birthday and let’s party 5
🎈BalloonU+1F388. Filed under birthday and celebrate. Emoji 0.6.
💐BouquetU+1F490. Filed under birthday and anniversary. Emoji 0.6.
🕺Man dancingU+1F57A. The pair of Woman dancing in Unicode’s list. Filed under dance and festive. Emoji 3.0.
💃Woman dancingU+1F483. Unicode’s names list says of this character: also used for "let’s party". Filed under dance and festive. Emoji 0.6.
🎁Wrapped giftU+1F381. Filed under birthday, present and surprise. Emoji 0.6.
Party faces typed 8
(>3<)=====Eyes shut, horn at full length
(^3^)=@Upright: lips pursed on a rolled-up horn
<|:-DRead it sideways: a party hat, two eyes, a big grin
<|:-D <|:-D <|:-DThree guests in hats
<|:-o=====Sideways again, the horn blown out straight
<|:-o=@Hat on, horn at the lips: = is the tube and @ the paper still rolled up
.:*(^o^)*:.Confetti coming down both sides
*toot toot* (^3^)=====With the sound, between asterisks
Party hat drawings 3
Hat and confettiConfetti coming down around the hat
Party hatA cone with two spots, on a typed face
Party horn, blownHat on, horn at full length
Party face lines 6
🥳 best news all weekFor a reply to good news
🥳 hat on, horn readyThe two props in the emoji’s Unicode name
🥳 party timeThe plain announcement
🥳 see you at the partyFor the invitation reply
🥳 today we celebrateCLDR’s word celebrate
🥳 we did itCLDR’s word hooray, said another way
Party face combos 14
🥳🎂The bday pairPartying face, then birthday cake. The two emoji CLDR files under bday.
🏖️🥳Beach partyBeach with umbrella, then partying face.
🤠🥳🥸Costume partyCowboy hat face, then partying face, then disguised face. Unicode’s three faces with hats, in its order.
💃🥳🕺Dance partyWoman dancing, then partying face, then man dancing.
🏫🥳End of term partySchool, then partying face.
🥳🙌🎉Hooray times threePartying face, then raising hands, then party popper. The three emoji filed under hooray.
🏠🥳New house partyHouse, then partying face.
🥳🎉Party and popperPartying face, then party popper. The two characters with PARTY in their Unicode names.
🦁🥳Party animalLion, then partying face. By Wiktionary, a person known for frequent, enthusiastic attendance at parties. The German translation it lists is Partylöwe.
👒🥳Party in the gardenWoman’s hat, then partying face. CLDR files the hat under garden and under party.
🍕🥳Pizza for the partyPizza, then partying face.
🤫🥳Shh, surpriseShushing face, then partying face.
😒🥳SpoilsportUnamused face, then partying face. By Wiktionary a party pooper is one who dampens fun, and spoilsport is a synonym.
🕛🥳🎆Stroke of midnightTwelve o’clock, then partying face, then fireworks.
How this list was compiled: Built on 2026-10-16 from sources read that day. The emoji, their names, code points and Emoji version numbers are from the Unicode emoji list, version 18.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/emoji/emoji-test.txt); names are the CLDR short names printed in that file. Search words are from the CLDR English annotations (https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotations/en.xml and https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotationsDerived/en.xml). Partying face is U+1F973, Emoji 11.0, in the group Smileys & Emotion, subgroup face-hat, second of that subgroup’s three emoji (Cowboy hat face, Partying face, Disguised face). The file lists one form of it: no skin tone, and no text style in https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/emoji/emoji-variation-sequences.txt. Its twelve CLDR words are bday, birthday, celebrate, celebration, excited, face, happy, hat, hooray, horn, party and partying: bday is filed under two emoji (Partying face, Birthday cake), horn under two (Partying face, Postal horn), hooray under three (Partying face, Raising hands, Party popper), partying under four (Partying face and the three with bunny ears) and party under thirteen. The second group is the other emoji filed under party in the file’s order, eleven of the twelve: Tropical drink, which CLDR also files under alcohol, is left out. The third group is the rest of the six emoji filed under birthday (Balloon, Wrapped gift, Bouquet) and the two dancers; Clinking glasses, filed under celebrate, is left out for the same reason as the drink. Character names (FACE WITH PARTY HORN AND PARTY HAT, PARTY POPPER, WOMAN WITH BUNNY EARS) and the names-list notes (congratulations; also used for let’s party) are from UnicodeData.txt and NamesList.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt, https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/NamesList.txt): the names list has no note for Partying face, and these two are the only characters with PARTY in their names. The character dates from Unicode 11.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/DerivedAge.txt); the year 2018 is from the date line of the Emoji 11.0 list (https://www.unicode.org/Public/emoji/11.0/emoji-test.txt) and from Unicode’s list of versions (https://www.unicode.org/versions/enumeratedversions.html). Wikipedia, Party hat (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_hat): most typically a conical hat of thin paperboard with an elastic string as a chinstrap. Wikipedia, Party horn (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_horn): a paper noisemaker, also known as a party blower, which unfurls and makes a horn-like noise when blown into; the paper tube often holds a coiled strip that retracts it; the term in several languages translates to a mother in law’s tongue, Portuguese língua de sogra for one. Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0): party animal (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/party_animal), with its German translation Partylöwe, and party pooper (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/party_pooper), which the entry tells readers to distinguish from party popper. Wikipedia’s List of emoticons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emoticons) has no party face. One line is from Emojipedia (https://emojipedia.org/partying-face), restated: its description of the drawing includes confetti floating around the head. The three drawings, the lines and the combos with their names are this site’s own work. Licence: own work: the selection, the text drawings, the lines, the combo names and the notes are this site's own. Emoji names, code points and search words are Unicode and CLDR data, used under the Unicode License v3 (https://www.unicode.org/license.txt). Facts from Wikipedia and Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) and the one line from Emojipedia are restated in this site's own words and credited in the source line.