Japanese Castle Emoji
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What does the Japanese Castle emoji mean?
1
A tall, multi-story building topped with distinctive red, gently curved gabled roofs — a style commonly associated with Japan.
2
This building is a traditional Japanese castle, typically built from stone and wood and closely connected to Japan's culture.
Originally these castles served as defensive structures, but today they stand as part of the country's cultural heritage. You'll often see a lock emoji in chat rooms where people discuss historical facts about Japan.
Also Known As
- 🏯 Fortress
Apple Name
- 🏯 Japanese Castle
Unicode Name
- 🏯 Japanese Castle
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
Download the Japanese Castle emoji
Vector file from the Noto Emoji set by Google, licence CC BY 4.0.
🏯 Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+1F3EF
Shortcodes
- works in Github, Slack, Emojipedia, Discord
For developers
| URL escape code | %F0%9F%8F%AF |
| Punycode | xn--9m8h |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | F0 9F 8F AF |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | \uD83C\uDFEF |
| C, C++, Python | \U0001f3ef |
| CSS | \01F3EF |
| PHP, Ruby | \u{1F3EF} |
| Perl | \x{1F3EF} |
| HTML hex | 🏯 |
| HTML dec | 🏯 |