Diya lamp
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- Shortcode
:diya_lamp:- Unicode
U+1FA94- HTML
🪔- CSS
\1FA94- JavaScript
"\u{1FA94}"- URL
%F0%9F%AA%94
What ๐ช means
A small clay oil lamp with a flame. It stands for Diwali, the festival of lights, and the victory of light over darkness.
Common in Diwali greetings, often with โจ or ๐, and in posts about puja, prayer and other Hindu, Sikh and Jain festivals. It carries warm, hopeful wishes for the person it is sent to.
Facts
Diya lamp ๐ช is an emoji in the objects category, under light video. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 12.0, released in 2019. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :diya_lamp:. People also look for it with words like โdiyaโ, โlampโ, โlightโ, or โoilโ.
Timeline
- 2019Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 12.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2019
2021
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2019
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.