Boomerang
Emoji 13.0 ยท Objects ยท :boomerang:
Also known as: rebound, repercussion, weapon
How it looks elsewhere
๐ช Your device
Twemoji 
Noto 
Fluent 
OpenMoji Copy as code
What Boomerang Means
People reach for ๐ช when they mean rebound, repercussion, weapon. Searching Snagmoji for any of those words finds it.
Boomerang is one of the objects emoji, alongside ๐จ ๐ช โ๏ธ โ๏ธ ๐ ๏ธ and 21 more in the same family.
History & Platforms
Boomerang was added in 2020 as part of Emoji 13.0. It has artwork in Twemoji, Google's Noto, Microsoft's Fluent, OpenMoji. Apple, Samsung and WhatsApp draw it in their own styles, which is why the same emoji can look a little different from phone to phone.
Under the hood ๐ช is the single code point U+1FA83, and on GitHub, Slack and most chat apps you can type it as :boomerang:.
How To Use ๐ช
- Copy it: click the big emoji above, or the "Snag it" button.
- Chain it: on the main page, Shift+click emoji to build a string like ๐ช๐จ๐ช and copy it all at once.
- Type it: in Slack, GitHub and Discord, type :boomerang: and it converts. On Windows press Win+. and on Mac press Ctrl+Cmd+Space to open the system picker.
- Use it in code: the HTML entity, JavaScript and CSS escapes are in the "Copy as code" box above.