U+1FA94 "🪔" Diya Lamp Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🪔
U+1FA94 "🪔" Diya Lamp is a symbol representing a small oil lamp traditionally made of clay, known as a diya, which is deeply significant in South Asian cultures, particularly during the Hindu festival of Diwali. It embodies the celebration of light over darkness, hope over despair, and knowledge over ignorance, often used in decorative displays and religious rituals. This character was added to the Unicode Standard in 2019 as part of the Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs block, allowing its use in digital communication to evoke cultural and spiritual themes of illumination and festivity.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1FA94 |
| Version Added | 12.0 |
| Name | Diya Lamp |
| Block | Symbols and Pictographs Extended-A |
| 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 0xAA 0x94 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83E 0xDE94 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001FA94 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83e\ude94 |