Red paper lantern Emoji

Objects

A glowing, cylindrical red paper lantern featuring black trim and vertical slats. It depicts a traditional Japanese light source, often seen hanging outside storefronts or during cultural festivities.

Usage Context

Used to denote nightlife, ramen shops, or Japanese dining. Because of its distinctive look, it is frequently used in posts about food, travel to Japan, or festivals like Obon. It is sometimes paired with the 🍜 or 🍶 emojis to set the scene for a night out at an izakaya.

History

These lanterns, known as chōchin, have been used in Japan for centuries, originally as portable lights for traveling at night. The emoji was added to Unicode in 2010 to help capture the specific visual flair of Japanese streetscapes and nightlife within digital messaging.

Details

Glyph

🏮

Unicode

U+1F3EE

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f3ee:

HTML Entity

&#xD83C;&#xDFEE;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category Objects

Subcategory light & video

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License Apache-2.0 / OFL-1.1

Google Noto License

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