Japanese New Year pine
Nature and animals
What it means when sent
The kadomatsu, a Japanese New Year gate decoration; it points at early January in Japan, not at Lunar New Year.
Official name vs. real use
The name Unicode gave it and the way people use it are not the same. If you searched your way here, the second one is usually what you were after.
- Official name
- pine decoration
- What people call it
- Japanese New Year pine
- Code point
- U+1F38D
- Code points
- 1
A single code point. One backspace deletes it.
Animals carry different meanings by culture. ๐ท is cute in one place and an insult in another; ๐ฆ sits between clever and sly.
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 ๐ mean?
The kadomatsu, a Japanese New Year gate decoration; it points at early January in Japan, not at Lunar New Year.
Q. What is its official name?
Unicode calls it pine decoration, code point U+1F38D. It sits under Nature and animals.
Q. Does it survive copy and paste?
On most devices, yes โ though every vendor draws it slightly differently.