U+1F3EE "🏮" Izakaya Lantern Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🏮
U+1F3EE "🏮" Izakaya Lantern is a pictographic representation of a traditional Japanese paper lantern, often red or orange in color, that hangs outside izakaya, or casual Japanese pubs, to signify their presence and welcome customers. This emoji is commonly used in digital communication to denote dining out, drinking, festive atmospheres, or Asian cuisine, and it carries cultural connotations of warmth, hospitality, and nighttime socializing. Its design typically features a glowing, bulbous shape with a small tassel at the bottom, evoking the cozy, inviting ambiance of these neighborhood bars and restaurants.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F3EE |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Izakaya Lantern |
| 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 0x8F 0xAE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83C 0xDFEE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F3EE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83c\udfee |