🎋Tanabata Tree Emoji
Generally, it just means "tanabata tree" or “bamboo. ” It’s a visual representation of the Japanese tradition.
The 🎋 emoji represents a Japanese tanabata tree.
- Unicode
- U+1F38B
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :tanabata_tree:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🎋 Tanabata Tree emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
Tanabata Tree emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F38B — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your tanabata tree looks like to the person on the other side.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Facebook, Messenger
Open-source, design systems
Galaxy, One UI
Windows, Teams, Fluent
WhatsApp on Android
Slack, Discord themes
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Tanabata Tree emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :tanabata_tree:.
In your code
Escapes for the languages people actually paste this into. Every one of them produces the same character, and that character is U+1F38B.
How to type the 🎋 Tanabata Tree emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
Tanabata Tree emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 9. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Tanabata Tree emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around tanabata tree for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with 🎋, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
What 🎋 means from a girl or a guy
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
What 🎋 means in other countries
Represents the bamboo used in Japan’s Tanabata star festival, where wishes are written on paper and hung from branches.
Tied to the July star festival — people write wishes on tanzaku strips and hang them on bamboo like this.
Reads as generic bamboo or a plant emoji, with the festival meaning usually missed entirely.
Before you send it: Use it around Tanabata season with Japanese friends; elsewhere a bamboo photo caption is a more common fit.
What 🎋 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
The character is the same everywhere, but the artwork and the reading of it change from app to app.
🎋 vs 🎄 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Tanabata Tree
Code: U+1F38B · added 2010
Shortcode: :tanabata_tree:
Generally, it just means "tanabata tree" or “bamboo.
Unicode name: Christmas Tree
Code: U+1F384 · added 2010
Shortcode: :christmas_tree:
It usually just means Christmas or the winter holidays.
Where the 🎋 Tanabata Tree emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time — U+1F38B never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
🎋 existed there as
KDDI au EB3D.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Tanabata Tree was approved as U+1F38B and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 🎋 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.