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Hot Springs Emoji ♨️

Three wavy lines of steam curling upward, the exact symbol Japan has used on its maps for generations to mark an onsen. Hot spring trips and spa days get the literal use, especially posts about Japan's winter bathing culture, and it's borrowed loosely elsewhere for any kind of rising heat: a hot bath, a sauna, food fresh off the stove.

What ♨️ means

A red emoji designed with a circular base and three curved lines emerging from it. Although the ♨️ Hot Springs emoji refers to the natural geothermal spring spouting from the earth, most of the time it signifies the temperature of something; a drink, a place, a shower, etc.

How and when to use it

If you're texting someone about the sizzling hot coffee, chai, or even a dish you're having, you can use ♨️. For example, "Yeah. I just burnt my tongue with this scorching coffee ♨️ FML".
While sharing a video of grilling, roasting, or even just tossing food over the fire, ♨️ can be used in the post caption. It can be a video from your kitchen or one from Gordon Ramsay's (a repost, essentially).
♨️ can also be used to refer to a steaming shower. For instance, "Nothing beats a steeeeming shower after a long and rough day ♨️".
If you're sharing a picture of yourself which you'd like to tag as 'hot' or 'sexy', then too, you can use ♨️. Like, "Fresh as a peach and hot as a melting marshmallow ♨️".
If you're texting someone about a dish gone wrong, burnt, precisely, you can use ♨️ as a way of indicating "overcooked" or "extra grilled". It can be a social media post/story or even a direct message (DM) to someone close about the embarrassing mishap.

Other Names

♨️ Geothermal Springs
♨️ Hydrothermal Spring
♨️ Hot Water Spring
♨️ Hot
♨️ Heating
♨️ Sizzling Hot
♨️ Burning Hot
(basically, any variant of hot and its superlatives)

The lowdown

Category: Travel & Places › place-other
Codepoints: U+2668 U+FE0F
Emoji version: Emoji 0.6
Shortcodes: :hotsprings: GitHub
Keywords: hot, hotsprings, springs, steaming

How it looks across platforms

Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.