Travel & Places · Emoji 0.6
🗾Map of Japan Emoji
It generally means “Japan.” People use it to point out something related to the country or to show they’re thinking about Japan.
The 🗾 emoji is a map of Japan.
- Unicode
- U+1F5FE
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :japan:
- Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🗾 Map of Japan emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 2 of them.
People also look for it as japan emoji.
02 — Platforms
Map of Japan emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F5FE. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 9.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Map of Japan emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :japan:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F5FE.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🗾 Map of Japan emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
05 — Download
Map of Japan emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the map of japan 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
06 — Combinations
Map of Japan emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around map of japan 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+1F5FE, 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: Map of Japan
Code: U+1F5FE · added 2010
Shortcode: :japan:
It generally means “Japan.”
Unicode name: World Map
Code: U+1F5FA U+FE0F · added 2014
Shortcode: :world_map:
Usually, it just means “map”.
11 — History
Where the 🗾 Map of Japan 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+1F5FE 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 E572.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Map of Japan was approved as U+1F5FE 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