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Love Hotel Emoji 🏩

One of the original 2010 emoji, this pink building with a heart on its facade represents Japan's short-stay 'love hotels.' It's since become shorthand anywhere for booking a room for privacy, not sightseeing.

What 🏩 means

A pink building with a centrally arched roof that has an 'H' printed on the wall beneath it, while there are windows on either side of the letter, a glass door below, and decorative plants on both sides of that door.

The 🏩 Love Hotel emoji refers to hotels or accommodations that can be booked 'by the hour', which is generally used for intimate and sexual privacy between two consensual adults. As real-life usage suggests, this emoji too signifies sexual activity, privacy, intimacy, and "couple stuff".

How and when to use it

If your bestie is nervous about planning her first Valentine's, be the trashy *and wild* best friend that you are, and playfully poke her about heading to a love hotel using 🏩. Like, "How about some foreplay to your relationship? Get a room, bruh 🏩"
Speaking of a room, if two or more people are acting visibly discomforting to the rest on a group chat, you can use 🏩 to ask them to please get a room. Along the same lines, you can also use this emoji while commenting on nauseating PDA posts.
While teasingly speaking about a couple, you can use 🏩. For example, "No idea, man. Both haven't been returning my calls. The love birds finally got a place to do something about themselves 🏩".
In any context, 🏩 would be innately translated into a place for physical intimacy. So, please do not use this emoji to refer to a hotel that was 'pretty'. Use it instead to refer to one that was pretty good.

Other Names

🏩 Romance Hotel
🏩 Leisure Hotel
🏩 Amusement Hotel (its amusing, alright)
🏩 Couples Hotel
🏩 Boutique Hotel
🏩 By-the-Hour Hotel

The lowdown

Category: Travel & Places › place-building
Codepoints: U+1F3E9
Emoji version: Emoji 0.6
Shortcodes: :love_hotel:
Keywords: building, hotel, love

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.