Travel & Places · Emoji 0.6
🏩Love Hotel Emoji
Generally, it means someone is referring to a love hotel or a place for romantic getaways with a partner. It’s a visual shorthand for something intimate and private.
The 🏩 emoji is a small building with a heart inside.
- Unicode
- U+1F3E9
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :love_
hotel: - Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🏩 Love Hotel emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 3 of them.
02 — Platforms
Love Hotel emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F3E9 — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your love hotel looks like to the person on the other side.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Love Hotel emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :love_hotel:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F3E9.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🏩 Love Hotel emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F3E9 when there is no key at all.
05 — Download
Love Hotel emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the love hotel as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
Microsoft
06 — Combinations
Love Hotel emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around love hotel for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
All combinations →Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that for every pair Google has drawn, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
07 — In conversation
What 🏩 means from a girl or a guy
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
08 — Apps
What 🏩 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F3E9, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
10 — Difference
🏩 vs 🤟 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Love Hotel
Code: U+1F3E9 · added 2010
Shortcode: :love_hotel:
Generally, it means someone is referring to a love hotel or a place for romantic getaways with a partner.
Unicode name: Love-you Gesture
Code: U+1F91F · added 2017
Shortcode: :i_love_you_hand_sign:
It generally means “I love you.”
11 — History
Where the 🏩 Love Hotel 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+1F3E9 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
NTT DoCoMo E669-E6EF, KDDI au EAF3, SoftBank E501.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Love Hotel was approved as U+1F3E9 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.
12 — FAQ