fire emoji

Texted heat symbol

The fire emoji (🔥) indicates something impressive, exciting, or attractive.

It marks approval or enthusiasm: That new album is fire 🔥, Your fit is 🔥.

It can signal literal fire or heat, but most uses are figurative—something is hot in the sense of being excellent, desirable, or intensely good.

Common in social media and texting as shorthand for "amazing" or "on point."

Related
  • flameBurning gas made visible
  • blazeIntense burning fire
  • hotHaving much warmth
  • burningCombustion in progress
  • litStarted burning

angry · flame war · throwing shade · passion · roast · savage · burn · crash and burn · heat · spicy · hot take · trending · dumpster · mixtape · fierce · sizzle · red · orange

Categories
Opposites
enthusiasm/approval

fire emojiskull emoji

Cranium pictograph for texts

cold shoulder · hard pass · cringe · flop · mid

temperature/energy symbolism

fire emojifrozen

Solidified by extreme cold

extinguished · ashes

trendiness/cultural heat

fire emojidead

No longer alive

dated · over · played out · yesterday's news · cheugy

Family

fire, emoji, fires, fired, firing, fiery, fireman, fireplace, firework

Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G