🕯️
What 🕯️ means
A white cylindrical wax candle with a lit wick and a couple of wax melts at the rim, placed in a silver candle holder. The 🕯️ Candle emoji signifies light, flame, spark, fire, and brightness. Besides, it may also suggest melting and molding too.
How and when to use it
- If you're messaging your best friend about how you 'melted' in the presence of something or someone, use 🕯️. Like, "I wanted to tell her so many things. But the moment she spotted me, I melted, ugh 🕯️".
- Weighing on the contrast between a candle's mereness and its power, 🕯️ could signify humbleness. If you're sharing something that's humble or has the quality of humbleness in it, use 🕯️ - "The size of your physical body doesn't matter when you are the light 🕯️.
- You could use 🕯️ even while interjecting daily conversations and scenarios with candle-related idioms. For instance, "This was bound to happen. You can never burn a candle on both ends! 🕯️" or "If you're gonna be holding the candle to everything, might as well burn it all 🕯️".
- Completely off-track but related use-case; horror! 🕯️ is the perfect emoji if you want to set the mood in your captions or text messages! It can be horror quotes, a horror narration, etc.
Other Names
- 🕯️ Melting Candle
- 🕯️ White Candle
- 🕯️ Light
- 🕯️ Wax Candle
- 🕯️ Lit Candle
- 🕯️ Wax Light
- 🕯️ Candle in a Candle Holder
At a glance
- Category
- Objects › light & video
- Codepoints
U+1F56F U+FE0F- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.7
- Shortcodes
:candle:- Keywords
- candle, light
How it looks across platforms