Symbols · Emoji 1.0
🕎Menorah Emoji
Generally, when someone uses the 🕎 emoji, they’re wishing someone a happy Hanukkah or expressing support for Jewish culture. It’s a quick way to acknowledge the holiday or show solidarity.
The 🕎 emoji is the menorah, a nine-branched candelabra.
- Unicode
- U+1F54E
- Released
- 2015
- Shortcode
- :menorah_
with_ nine_ branches: - Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🕎 Menorah emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 6.
People also look for it as candlestick emoji.
02 — Platforms
Menorah emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the menorah 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
Menorah emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :menorah_with_nine_branches:.
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+1F54E.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🕎 Menorah emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
05 — Download
Menorah 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.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
Microsoft
06 — Combinations
Menorah emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around menorah 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
Who sent the menorah and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
08 — Around the world
What 🕎 means in other countries
The menorah is a clear, specific symbol tied almost entirely to Hanukkah and Jewish identity, with little room for misreading.
Sent as a holiday greeting during the eight-day festival, its main real-world use.
Represents Jewish faith and heritage beyond the holiday itself, including as a national emblem of Israel.
Occasionally lumped into mixed holiday graphics alongside unrelated symbols.
Before you send it: Send it for Hanukkah greetings; it doesn’t work as a general candle or light emoji.
09 — Apps
What 🕎 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F54E, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
11 — History
Where the 🕎 Menorah emoji came from
When it was approved, which release it landed in, and how long phones have had it.
Same character every time — U+1F54E 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.
Menorah was approved as U+1F54E and shipped in Emoji 1.0 (2015). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
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.
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