New Year Emoji

Fireworks 🎆 are the single most recognisable New Year emoji; the sparkler 🎇 is the smaller hand-held version, and the firecracker 🧨 adds a bang. Clinking glasses 🥂 is the midnight toast, bottle with popping cork 🍾 is the champagne itself, and 🍻 swaps it for beer. 🎉 and 🎊 throw the confetti, and 🥳 is the face of everyone at the party.

Time emoji do the countdown work: 🕛 shows exactly midnight, ⏳ and ⌛ say "almost there", and 🗓️ 📆 mark the turn of the calendar. 🪩 (mirror ball) and 💃🕺 cover the dancing, 🎩 is the classic top hat, and 💋 is the midnight kiss.

Happy New Year emoji text and countdown

For a Happy New Year emoji text, put the greeting first and two or three emoji after it: "Happy New Year! 🎆🥂" or "Wishing you a wonderful year ahead ✨🍀". For a countdown message, the keycap digits are perfect: 🔟 9️⃣ 8️⃣ 7️⃣ 6️⃣ 5️⃣ 4️⃣ 3️⃣ 2️⃣ 1️⃣ 🎆.

There is no single "2027" emoji, but you can write any year with keycaps: 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣7️⃣ 🎉. Keycaps are built from an ordinary digit plus two extra combining characters, so copy them from this page rather than typing them, and test once on your phone: a few older apps show the digit and a box instead.

New Year's resolutions in emoji

The other half of New Year is the fresh start. 🆕 and 🌱 say new beginnings, 📝 and ✅ are the list of resolutions, 🎯 is a goal, 📈 is growth, and 🚀 means going big this year. Gym promises usually come as 💪🏋️, and 🍀🤞 are for luck in the year ahead.

A short line such as "New year, new goals 🎯📝✨" works for Instagram or LinkedIn, while "2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣7️⃣ let's go 🚀" suits a group chat.

New Year symbols and traditions around the world

Many countries mix New Year with winter, so 🎄 and ❄️ belong here too: in much of Eastern Europe the decorated tree is a New Year tree, and presents are often given at New Year rather than at Christmas. In Spain people eat twelve grapes 🍇 at the twelve strokes of midnight for twelve lucky months. In Japan, 🎍 is the kadomatsu, a pine and bamboo arrangement placed by the door for the New Year, ⛩️ stands for the first shrine visit of the year, and temple bells 🔔 are rung 108 times on New Year's Eve.

Lunar New Year (Chinese New Year) falls in January or February and has its own symbols, 🧧 red envelopes and 🏮 lanterns; they appear here for people wishing both, and in full in the Lunar New Year collection. For plain-text New Year symbols that work in usernames and documents, use stars and bursts: ★ ☆ ✦ ✧ ⋆ ✺ ✹ ❈ ✷ and the music notes ♪ ♫.