U+1F9E7 "🧧" Red Gift Envelope Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🧧
U+1F9E7 "🧧" Red Gift Envelope is a digital representation of the traditional red envelope, or hongbao, used extensively in Chinese and other East Asian cultures during celebrations like Lunar New Year, weddings, and birthdays. This envelope is customarily filled with money as a symbol of good luck, prosperity, and warding off evil spirits, with the red color itself representing fortune and happiness. In digital communication, the emoji is often used to convey wishes for wealth, festive greetings, or the act of giving a monetary gift, serving as a convenient icon for these longstanding cultural practices.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F9E7 |
| Version Added | 11.0 |
| Name | Red Gift Envelope |
| Block | Supplemental 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 0xA7 0xA7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83E 0xDDE7 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F9E7 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83e\udde7 |