U+1F54E "🕎" Menorah with Nine Branches Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+1F54E "🕎" Menorah with Nine Branches is a pictographic symbol representing the Hanukkah menorah, also known as a hanukkiah, which holds nine candle holders: one for each of the eight nights of the Jewish Festival of Lights and a central, raised ninth branch for the shamash, or helper candle, used to light the others. This character is encoded in the Unicode Standard under the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block and is commonly used in digital communication to denote the holiday of Hanukkah, Jewish cultural identity, or the themes of light and miracles associated with the celebration. Unlike the seven-branched menorah used in the ancient Temple in Jerusalem, this nine-branched version specifically commemorates the story of the oil that miraculously burned for eight days in the rededicated Temple.

General Properties

Code Point U+1F54E
Version Added 8.0
Name Menorah with Nine Branches
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 0x95 0x8E
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD83D 0xDD4E
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001F54E
C/C++/Java Escape \ud83d\udd4e

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Ideographic
East Asian Width Wide
Script Common
Script Extensions Common
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Other
Sentence Break Other
Emoji Yes
Emoji Presentation Yes
Extended Pictographic Yes