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๐ฌ Cigarette emoji
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What doesย ๐ฌCigarette emojimean?
The cigarette emoji, ๐ฌ, shows a lit cigarette. It’s used for smoking cigarettes, cigars, and especially marijuana joints. It’s occasionally associated with relaxing, partying, bad boys, sexiness, and having an attitude.
Where does ๐ฌ Cigarette emoji come from?
Most of us are familiar with the no smoking sign and its emoji form, ๐ญ. It’s what the pilot turns on before a flight takes off if you haven’t air-travelled since 1988 and have forgotten you’re not allowed to smoke on a planeโand pretty much anywhere else.
But where you can smoke, you might see the smoking symbol, as the cigarette emoji is officially called by Unicode. It was approved in 2010 under Unicode 6.0. Platforms depict it as a filtered cigarette with smoke lines and a red or ashy burning tip, as shown by the screenshot from Emojipedia below.
Examples of ๐ฌ Cigarette emoji
Who uses ๐ฌ Cigarette emoji?
Texters and tweeters use theย cigaretteย to represent smoking. This includes smokers jonesing for a square or (the many more) anti-smokers berating the nasty habit.
stress reliever ๐ฌ pic.twitter.com/dVQrHWgxrC
— Kakay montemayor (@Bobokooooooo) August 14, 2018
You go from a 10 ๐๐ผ 2 if you smoke ๐ฌ
— Amathyst Breana (@amathyst13) August 8, 2018
๐ต @ChelseaFC are set to give manager Maurizio Sarri a 'smoking area' at Stamford Bridge….
๐ณ ….after reportedly smoking EIGHTY cigarettes a day. ๐ฌ pic.twitter.com/xgFvDwRSfr
— SPORF (@Sporf) August 13, 2018
While showing a cigarette, it’s the sense of “smoking” that often prevails for the cigarette emoji, lending it to lovers of cigars and marijuana, in particular, as there is not aย joint emoji (yet).
WoW.. Enjoying A Big Havana Cigar..
Cool..?!?..Why not…๐๐ฌ๐ฌ pic.twitter.com/JufNqehebw— Vandevelde Solange (@solavandevelde1) August 8, 2018
When the weed gat you good๐ฌ๐ฌ๐๐๐๐๐ pic.twitter.com/zXk1i7CgO7
— MoNz (@Monz_Madikizela) August 3, 2018
The smoking emoji is often paired with things that go with the activity of smokingโdrinking, partying, old associations of smoking with being a rebel and looking sexy, and being edgy andย sardonic.
Wine and chill? ๐ท๐ฌ pic.twitter.com/0FtHa1jcdr
— mahesh (@mahes95) August 8, 2018
Iโm too hot! ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฃ๐ฌ pic.twitter.com/18fwxCASDY
— lunamars (@lunamars1407) August 13, 2018
Sorry about that ๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ฌ pic.twitter.com/FR3HsaFT1E
— Ryan Sibbald (@Rsibbald99) August 14, 2018
Note
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