Red Envelope Emoji
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What does the Red Envelope emoji mean?
1
This traditional red envelope, commonly given at festive occasions like the Lunar New Year and weddings, is a cherished symbol of prosperity and good fortune.
2
A red envelope stamped with a gold seal or gilded characters is traditionally exchanged in China on New Year's Eve, at weddings and other major celebrations. They usually hold money.
It’s a symbol of a monetary gift, the New Year and China Chinese culture.
Also Known As
- 🧧 Ang Pao
- 🧧 Hóngbāo
- 🧧 Lai See
- 🧧 Red Packet
Apple Name
- 🧧 Red Gift Envelope
Unicode Name
- 🧧 Red Gift Envelope
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
Download the Red Envelope emoji
Vector file from the Noto Emoji set by Google, licence CC BY 4.0.
🧧 Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+1F9E7
Shortcodes
- works in Github, Slack, Emojipedia, Discord
For developers
| URL escape code | %F0%9F%A7%A7 |
| Punycode | xn--xv9h |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | F0 9F A7 A7 |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | \uD83E\uDDE7 |
| C, C++, Python | \U0001f9e7 |
| CSS | \01F9E7 |
| PHP, Ruby | \u{1F9E7} |
| Perl | \x{1F9E7} |
| HTML hex | 🧧 |
| HTML dec | 🧧 |
Tags: gift, good luck, hóngbāo, lai see, money, red envelope, envelope, good, lai, luck, red, see
Category: Activities
Subgroup: Events & celebrations