Objects · Emoji 0.6
🏮Red Paper Lantern Emoji
Generally, the 🏮 emoji means “lantern” or “festival.” People use it to show they’re thinking of these events or just want to add a bit of a celebratory vibe to their message.
The 🏮 emoji is a red paper lantern.
- Unicode
- U+1F3EE
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :izakaya_
lantern: - Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🏮 Red Paper Lantern emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 6 of them.
02 — Platforms
Red Paper Lantern emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the red paper lantern as 9 vendors ship it.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Red Paper Lantern emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :izakaya_lantern:.
All emoji copy and paste →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+1F3EE.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🏮 Red Paper Lantern emoji
No picker to hand? The red paper lantern can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
05 — Download
Red Paper Lantern emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the red paper lantern 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
Samsung
Microsoft
WhatsApp
JoyPixels
06 — Combinations
Red Paper Lantern emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around red paper lantern 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
One code point, several readings — where the red paper lantern lands changes how it is taken.
10 — Difference
🏮 vs 😫 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Red Paper Lantern
Code: U+1F3EE · added 2010
Shortcode: :izakaya_lantern:
Generally, the 🏮 emoji means “lantern” or “festival.”
Unicode name: Tired Face
Code: U+1F62B · added 2010
Shortcode: :tired_face:
Generally, 😫 means you're feeling really tired or overwhelmed.
11 — History
Where the 🏮 Red Paper Lantern 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+1F3EE 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 E74B, KDDI au E4BD.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Red Paper Lantern was approved as U+1F3EE 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