Shinto shrine
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- Shortcode
:shinto_shrine:- Unicode
U+26E9- HTML
⛩- CSS
\26E9- JavaScript
"\u{26E9}"- URL
%E2%9B%A9%EF%B8%8F
What ⛩️ means
A torii, the gate that marks the entrance to a Shinto shrine in Japan. Most people use it as shorthand for Japan, shrines and traditional Japanese culture more than for religion itself.
Tags travel posts from Kyoto, Tokyo and other trips, often next to 🇯🇵, 🗾 or 🌸. Anime and gaming fans use it for shrine scenes and festival settings. In captions it sets a calm, scenic tone.
The picture is the gate, not a building. Torii stand at shrine entrances, and the red-orange ones are the best known.
Facts
Shinto shrine ⛩️ is an emoji in the travel and places category, under place religious. 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 :shinto_shrine:. People also look for it with words like “religion”, “shinto”, or “shrine”.
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.