Japanese dolls

A pair of dolls in court robes, the emperor and empress set for Hinamatsuri, the Japanese Doll Festival or Girls' Day. Families display them to wish daughters health and happiness.

Families and Japan fans post it on Hinamatsuri, 3 March, often with 🌸 or 🍡, and in photos of tiered doll displays. It also turns up in posts about Japanese traditions and girls' celebrations.

Facts

Japanese dolls 🎎 is an emoji in the activities category, under event. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :dolls: or :japanese_dolls:. People also look for it with words like “Japanese”, “celebration”, “doll”, or “dolls”.

Timeline

1. 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)

Design history

Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.

activities · Unicode 6.0