U+1F56F "🕯" Candle Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🕯
U+1F56F "🕯" Candle is a pictographic representation of a traditional candle, typically depicted as a tall, cylindrical wax body with a visible wick and a small flame at the top, often in a teardrop or flickering shape. It is part of the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block and is commonly used in digital communication to symbolize light, warmth, spirituality, remembrance, or cozy and intimate settings. This character can also appear in contexts such as birthday celebrations, religious ceremonies, or to suggest a power outage or a romantic atmosphere, and it is generally displayed in yellow, red, or orange tones depending on the platform or font.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F56F |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Candle |
| 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 0xAF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83D 0xDD6F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F56F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83d\udd6f |
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 |
| 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 |
| Extended Pictographic | Yes |