🏮 is the red paper lantern: a hanging Japanese-style lantern (izakaya lantern). It is the lantern emoji — Lunar New Year, the Lantern Festival, Chinatown, Japanese…
🏮 is the red paper lantern: a hanging Japanese-style lantern (izakaya lantern). It is the lantern emoji — Lunar New Year, the Lantern Festival, Chinatown, Japanese restaurants and festivals — and a warm, festive glow in any caption. Original 2010 emoji. Lunar New Year set: 🧧 red envelope, 🎊 confetti ball, 🐉 dragon; Mid-Autumn 🥮 moon cake, 🎑 moon viewing.
Unicode name: red paper lantern · U+1F3EE · Emoji 0.6 (original set) · group: Objects.
IN A MESSAGEHappy Lunar New Year 🏮🧧 year of the horse
How people use it
Lunar New Year: greetings, decorations
Festivals: lantern festivals, matsuri
Japanese restaurants: izakaya
Warm glow: evening captions
Compare the options
Emoji
Name
Notes
red paper lanternU+1F3EE
Lantern
red envelopeU+1F9E7
Lucky money
confetti ballU+1F38A
Celebration
dragonU+1F409
Dragon
moon cakeU+1F96E
Mid-Autumn
Questions people ask
What does 🏮 mean?
A red paper lantern — Lunar New Year, festivals, Japanese restaurants.
Which emoji for Chinese New Year?
🏮 🧧 🐉 🎊 and the year’s animal.
Is 🏮 Chinese or Japanese?
The design is a Japanese izakaya lantern, but it is used for Chinese festivals too.
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