🏯Japanese Castle Emoji
Usually, it just means “Japanese castle. ” People use it to represent Japan or a connection to Japanese culture.
The 🏯 emoji represents a Japanese castle.
- Unicode
- U+1F3EF
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :japanese_castle:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🏯 Japanese Castle emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
Japanese Castle emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the japanese castle has been drawn in 4 ways.
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.
Japanese Castle emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :japanese_castle:.
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+1F3EF.
How to type the 🏯 Japanese Castle emoji
No picker to hand? The japanese castle can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
Japanese Castle 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
Japanese Castle emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around japanese castle 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
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
What 🏯 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F3EF, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
🏯 vs 🏰 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Japanese Castle
Code: U+1F3EF · added 2010
Shortcode: :japanese_castle:
Usually, it just means “Japanese castle.
Unicode name: Castle
Code: U+1F3F0 · added 2010
Shortcode: :european_castle:
Generally, the castle emoji means a castle itself.
Where the 🏯 Japanese Castle 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+1F3EF 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 EAF7, SoftBank E505.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Japanese Castle was approved as U+1F3EF 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.