U+1F38B "🎋" Tanabata Tree Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🎋
U+1F38B "🎋" Tanabata Tree is a decorative emoji depicting a small bamboo tree adorned with colorful streamers and paper ornaments, representing the traditional Japanese Tanabata festival. This festival, also known as the Star Festival, celebrates the annual meeting of the deities Orihime and Hikoboshi, where people write wishes on colorful strips of paper called tanzaku and tie them to bamboo branches. The emoji thus symbolizes hope, celebration, and the act of making wishes, often used in digital communication to convey festive joy, cultural appreciation, or a wish for good fortune.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F38B |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Tanabata Tree |
| Block | Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 🎋 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 🎋 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9F 0x8E 0x8B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83C 0xDF8B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F38B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83c\udf8b |