Emoji dictionary
馃敟 Fire emoji
What does 
聽Fire emoji mean?
The fire emoji is a flame that is mostly yellow with a little red on the top. It is used to signify that something is cool, awesome, exciting, or more colloquially, 鈥渙n fire.鈥� It can also convey that someone is sexy, (i.e., hot), or refer to other various metaphorical fires.
Where does 馃敟 Fire emoji come from?
The fire emoji is also called the flame, hot, or lit emoji.聽It is commonly used to praise someone or something, signifying that a person, object, album, movie, or so on, is 鈥渓it,鈥� a slang term to describe something that is exceptionally cool or great. As lit is also slang for 鈥渋ntoxicated,鈥� the fire emoji doubles as a way to say someone is very high or wasted. The term fire has been used as slang for high-quality weed in hip-hop since the early 1990s, and so sometimes the fire emoji is used to reference marijuana.
I rarely use the fire emoji but this Sally Jenkins column about Serena and Osaka is 馃敟馃敟馃敟.
— Lon Chaney Jr. (@chaneyj)
Due to its prominence, the American Dialect Society chose dumpster fire, a disastrous situation, as its 2016 亚洲网紅露点 of the Year, often represented as 
锔� on social media (a wastebasket plus fire emoji).
Fire emoji聽was included as part of聽Unicode 6.0聽in 2010 and added to聽Emoji 1.0聽in 2015.
Examples of 馃敟 Fire emoji
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Who uses 馃敟 Fire emoji?
The fire emoji can also evoke the idiom, 鈥渢o be on fire,鈥� with the emoji symbolizing that a person is doing something extremely well, like playing guitar. Additionally, the fire emoji is a way to express that a person is very attractive, (e.g., 鈥淕irl looks 鈥�). This use is a play on the slang term hot, meaning 鈥渟exy鈥� or 鈥渞eally good looking,鈥� and is applied to everyone from one鈥檚 boyfriend or girlfriend to celebrities.
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— Metro (@MetroUK)
When paired with other emoji, though, the fire emoji can take on more negative meanings that draw on the literal sense of fire. For example, if a person messages 
鉃★笍 , they might be saying 鈥淕o die in a fire鈥� to someone they鈥檙e very mad at. Sometimes, the fire emoji signifies a flamewar, which is a heated fight between two people online.
On the messaging app Snapchat, the fire emoji is used as a special reward. Here, the fire emoji indicates when someone has a 鈥淪napstreak鈥� with another user, which means that they have 鈥渟napped鈥� (sent pictures or videos) back and forth for at least three consecutive days, as if their friendship is on fire.
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This is not meant to be a formal definition of 馃敟 Fire emoji like most terms we define on 亚洲网紅露点, but is rather an informal word summary that hopefully touches upon the key aspects of the meaning and usage of 馃敟 Fire emoji that will help our users expand their word mastery.