Map of Japan

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Shortcode
:japan:
Shortcode
:map_of_japan:
Unicode
U+1F5FE
HTML
🗾
CSS
\1F5FE
JavaScript
"\u{1F5FE}"
URL
%F0%9F%97%BE

Japanmap

What ๐Ÿ—พ means

The outline of the Japanese islands. It means Japan as a country and a destination.

Japan travel posts pair it with ๐Ÿ‡ฏ๐Ÿ‡ต, ๐Ÿ—ป or ๐Ÿฃ. It also turns up in language-learning and anime fan posts.

It is the only country map in the emoji set, a sign of the set's roots in Japanese phones.

Facts

Map of Japan ๐Ÿ—พ is an emoji in the travel and places category, under place map. 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 :japan: or :map_of_japan:. People also look for it with words like โ€œJapanโ€ or โ€œmapโ€.

Timeline

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

Design history

Google (Noto)

  1. map of Japan, Google (Noto) design from 20152015
  2. map of Japan, Google (Noto) design from 20172017
  3. map of Japan, Google (Noto) design from 20212021

Twemoji (X, Discord)

  1. map of Japan, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20142014

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

travel & places ยท Unicode 6.0

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