Red Paper Lantern Emoji
What does the Red Paper Lantern emoji mean?
A classic cylindrical red Japanese lantern with black top and bottom: a familiar sight hanging outside restaurants and izakayas to signal places that serve food and drinks.
This is a red Japanese paper lantern used for decorative indoor lighting. It has a classic cylindrical shape with a black top and base.
Today these lanterns are mostly used as decoration, but for many years candles were placed inside to provide light. These streetlights once helped illuminate streets and public spaces.
Also Known As
- 🏮 Asian Lantern
- 🏮 Japanese Lantern
- 🏮 Red Lantern
Apple Name
- 🏮 Izakaya Lantern
Unicode Name
- 🏮 Izakaya Lantern
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
Download the Red Paper Lantern emoji
Vector file from the Noto Emoji set by Google, licence CC BY 4.0.
🏮 Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+1F3EE
Shortcodes
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For developers
| URL escape code | %F0%9F%8F%AE |
| Punycode | xn--8m8h |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | F0 9F 8F AE |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | \uD83C\uDFEE |
| C, C++, Python | \U0001f3ee |
| CSS | \01F3EE |
| PHP, Ruby | \u{1F3EE} |
| Perl | \x{1F3EE} |
| HTML hex | 🏮 |
| HTML dec | 🏮 |
Tags: bar, lantern, light, red, red paper lantern, paper, restaurant
Category: Objects
Subgroup: Light & video