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Japanese Castle Emoji 🏯

Stacked, tiered roofs in place of turrets set this apart from the fairy-tale European castle. It's a feudal Japanese fortress, used for samurai history, heritage posts, and anything old-world and distinctly Japanese.

What 🏯 means

A three-storied structure ascending in size, designed with royal blue roofs, a couple of windows on each floor, and a stony foundation. The building has a barred entrance below a triangular roof.

The 🏯 Japanese Castle emoji signifies the Japanese medieval times, history, a remnant of the past, and a mark of national heritage. Since Japanese castles were also former military residences, it can also suggest the ancestral military force.

How and when to use it

🏯 is a mandatory emoji to use in post captions or within text messages while forwarding information in any form about Japanese castles as a post, a repost, or even a text message.
You can also use 🏯 in general contexts revolving around Japanese heritage, history, etc.
Since Japanese castles were inhabited by Samurais among other officials and designated people, 🏯 can also be used while posting anything about Samurais, or even anything that has the word 'Samurai' in it.
If you're feeling particularly royal and on top of the world today, you can use 🏯 in the framework of social media posts and stories, like "Finally, FINALLY, I feel important to myself 🏯. Back in the game, bishesss".
Use 🏯 while referring your home to a Japanese castle. Like, "Please drop by my castle 🏯. I'm in dire need of tissue paper".

Other Names

🏯 Japanese Fortress
🏯 Fort
🏯 Strongholds in Japan
🏯 Japanese Historic Buildings
🏯 Castles
🏯 Himeji Castle
🏯 Osaka Castle
🏯 Castle Ruins

The lowdown

Category: Travel & Places › place-building
Codepoints: U+1F3EF
Emoji version: Emoji 0.6
Shortcodes: :japanese_castle:
Keywords: building, castle, Japanese

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.