Candle
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- Shortcode
:candle:- Unicode
U+1F56F- HTML
🕯- CSS
\1F56F- JavaScript
"\u{1F56F}"- URL
%F0%9F%95%AF%EF%B8%8F
What ๐ฏ๏ธ means
A lit candle. It stands for remembrance, mourning and prayer, and also for calm, cozy and romantic light.
In condolence messages and memorial posts it is sincere and quiet, often with ๐ or ๐ค. In lighter contexts it marks a cozy night, a bath, a candlelit dinner or a spiritual practice.
Keep party emoji away from it in grief messages, where its meaning is solemn.
Facts
Candle ๐ฏ๏ธ is an emoji in the objects category, under light video. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 7.0 (2014). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :candle:. People also look for it with words like โlightโ.
Timeline
- 2014Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 7.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2017
2021
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2016
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.