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What 🪔 means
A left-facing lamp made of clay or mud and painted with a simple design. The lamp cups a pool of oil from which emerges a wick that has a bright but small flame flickering at the tip.
The 🪔 Diya Lamp emoji refers to the festival of lights or colloquially known as Diwali. This emoji is symbolic of the prevalence of light, victory, truth, and a basic celebration of good over evil.
How and when to use it
- If you're posting or reposting Diwali content, 🪔 is a compulsory emoji to have in the caption. The same goes even for text messages or any form of virtual greetings for the festive season.
- Apart from just the festival, 🪔 works perfectly even while sharing content about Diwali sales, offers, tourism content, etc.
- A lamp signifies illumination and a sense of being enlightened too. If your post caption captures either of these ideas or both, you can use 🪔. Like, "When you possess the light within, you see it externally 🪔".
- Are you responding to something that is 'lit' either in a textual conversation or in the comments section? Or are you posting a 'lit' picture of yourself or a special moment you captured on your camera? If yes, use 🪔! For example, "I totally dig your hairstyle! It's lit AF 🪔".
Other Names
- 🪔 Diya
- 🪔 Lamp
- 🪔 Oil Lamp
- 🪔 Diwali
- 🪔 Festival of Lights
- 🪔 Light
- 🪔 Hindu Festival
The lowdown
- Category
- Objects › light & video
- Codepoints
U+1FA94- Emoji version
- Emoji 12.0
- Shortcodes
:diya_lamp:- Keywords
- diya, lamp, light, oil
How it looks across platforms
Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🪔 Diya Lamp or 🍲 Pot of Food?
Runs with a crowd
🪔 keeps company in diwali emojis and dussehra emojis and ganesh chaturthi emojis and guru nanak jayanti emojis — tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.