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Red Paper Lantern Emoji 🏮

What 🏮 means

A rounded reddish-orange paper lantern designed with horizontal lines throughout the fabric and held in place by two black circular structures at the top and bottom.

Generally, the 🏮 Red Paper Lantern emoji would signify light, festivals of light, decoration, aesthetics, and visual appeal. But specifically, it refers to an izakaya or a Japanese resto-bar.

How and when to use it

While wishing someone for a festival that centrally celebrates light and other aspects of the same, you could use 🏮. For example, "Happy Diwali! 🏮" or "Happy Hanukkah! 🏮".
🏮 is mandatory if the festival is precisely about lanterns or has the lanterns taking center stage of the whole celebration.
You could also use 🏮 in the broad context of light. So, if you're sharing a post with a caption that speaks of/about light, or a text message of the same, or even an insertion into a social media story, you can bring in 🏮. Like, "Visited this amazingly lit (pun intended) place! 🏮".
Apart from just Japanese restaurant and bars, 🏮 could be used in common contexts that revolve around Japanese culture; art, anime, tourist attractions, etc.
Use 🏮 in the caption while posting or reposting lantern pictures, lantern art, whimsical photographs of lantern festivals, etc.

Other Names

🏮 Izakaya Lantern
🏮 Japanese Restaurant and Bar
🏮 Japanese Red Lantern
🏮 Red Lantern
🏮 Paper Lantern
🏮 Lantern
🏮 Asian Lantern

The lowdown

Category: Objects › light & video
Codepoints: U+1F3EE
Emoji version: Emoji 0.6
Shortcodes: :izakaya_lantern::lantern: GitHub · Slack
Keywords: bar, lantern, light, paper, red, restaurant

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.