Tanabata tree

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Shortcode: :tanabata_tree:
Unicode: U+1F38B
HTML: 🎋
CSS: \1F38B
JavaScript: "\u{1F38B}"
URL: %F0%9F%8E%8B

Japanese banner celebration tanabata tree

What 🎋 means

A bamboo branch hung with colorful paper strips, from the Japanese star festival Tanabata. People write wishes on the strips and tie them to the bamboo.

Japanese users post it during the summer festival, often with ⭐ or 🌌. Elsewhere it serves as a symbol for making a wish or for Japanese summer culture.

Facts

Tanabata tree 🎋 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 :tanabata_tree:. People also look for it with words like “Japanese”, “banner”, “celebration”, or “tanabata”.