🎍Pine Decoration Emoji
Generally, 🎍 means “Happy New Year” or wishing someone good luck and prosperity during the Japanese New Year celebrations. People use it to express festive greetings and celebrate the holiday.
The 🎍 emoji represents a pine decoration, specifically a folded pine branch.
- Unicode
- U+1F38D
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :bamboo:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🎍 Pine Decoration emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
Pine Decoration emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F38D. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 9.
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.
Pine Decoration emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :bamboo:.
In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the pine decoration, code point U+1F38D.
How to type the 🎍 Pine Decoration emoji
No picker to hand? The pine decoration can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
Pine Decoration 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
Pine Decoration emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around pine decoration 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
Who sent the pine decoration and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
What 🎍 means in other countries
This is kadomatsu, a specific Japanese New Year gate ornament, largely unrecognized as anything but a plant elsewhere.
Traditional bamboo-and-pine decoration placed at entrances to welcome ancestral spirits for the New Year.
Usually read as generic bamboo or plant imagery, with the New Year meaning lost.
Before you send it: Send it for New Year wishes with Japanese friends; it won’t communicate the same thing to most Western readers.
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: Pine Decoration
Code: U+1F38D · added 2010
Shortcode: :bamboo:
Generally, 🎍 means “Happy New Year” or wishing someone good luck and prosperity during the Japanese New Year celebrations.
Unicode name: Pineapple
Code: U+1F34D · added 2010
Shortcode: :pineapple:
Generally, the pineapple emoji just means “pineapple” or something related to the tropical fruit.
Where the 🎍 Pine Decoration 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+1F38D 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 EAE3, SoftBank E436.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Pine Decoration was approved as U+1F38D 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.