love hotel
Places
What it means when sent
A hotel with a heart โ a Japanese love hotel, rented by the hour by couples. Readers elsewhere often see a heart on a building and think maternity clinic or hospital, and send it innocently; in Japan the reading is unambiguous.
- Code point
- U+1F3E9
- Code points
- 1
A single code point. One backspace deletes it.
Place emoji show the country that drew them. โฉ๏ธ is a Shinto gate and stands for Japan itself, and ๐ผ is Tokyo Tower, not the Eiffel Tower.
Using emojis
- Tap the character to copy it and paste it anywhere โ it is text, not an image, so its size follows the font around it.
- Sender and receiver on different devices see different drawings. Apple, Google and Samsung each draw their own, and for some emojis that changes the meaning (๐, ๐ ).
- At work, an emoji standing in for a sentence invites misreading. In some countries a bare ๐ reads as a brush-off.
- Putting emojis in a page title does not help search ranking โ they are usually stripped from the result.
- Skin-tone variants are not listed here. Only the base form is, because the meaning does not change with them.
Common questions
Q. What does ๐ฉ mean?
A hotel with a heart โ a Japanese love hotel, rented by the hour by couples. Readers elsewhere often see a heart on a building and think maternity clinic or hospital, and send it innocently; in Japan the reading is unambiguous.
Q. What is its official name?
Unicode calls it love hotel, code point U+1F3E9. It sits under Places.
Q. Does it survive copy and paste?
On most devices, yes โ though every vendor draws it slightly differently.