Tanabata tree Emoji

Activities

A tall, green bamboo stalk adorned with colorful, fluttering paper strips. These strips are inscribed with handwritten wishes and tied to the branches to ensure they reach the stars.

Usage Context

Used to celebrate the Japanese Tanabata festival, also known as the Star Festival. It is the go-to emoji for expressing hopes, dreams, or long-term goals. People often use it alongside ✨ to signify a wish or 🎋 itself as a marker for mid-summer festivities.

History

Tanabata honors the meeting of the deities Orihime and Hikoboshi, who are separated by the Milky Way and only reunite once a year. The tradition of hanging wishes on bamboo dates back to the Edo period in Japan, evolving from courtly customs into the popular public holiday celebrated every July 7th.

Details

Glyph

🎋

Unicode

U+1F38B

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f38b:

HTML Entity

&#xD83C;&#xDF8B;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category Activities

Subcategory event

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0

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