Moon viewing ceremony Emoji

Activities

A dark night scene featuring a bright, full moon hovering above a wooden stand holding traditional rice dumplings, set against a backdrop of susuki grass. It captures the essence of a serene outdoor harvest ritual.

Usage Context

Used to celebrate the autumn harvest or to talk about stargazing and evening festivities. It serves as the go-to icon for those observing the Mid-Autumn Festival or Japanese Tsukimi, often shared alongside 🌕 to emphasize the lunar connection.

History

Added to the Unicode standard in 2010, this emoji is rooted in the Japanese festival of Tsukimi, an ancient tradition of honoring the moon during the autumn equinox. Its design was adapted from early Japanese mobile carrier graphics that sought to represent seasonal cultural events for chat users.

Details

Glyph

🎑

Unicode

U+1F391

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f391:

HTML Entity

&#xD83C;&#xDF91;

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category Activities

Subcategory event

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Twemoji Attribution

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

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