The tanabata tree emoji is your pocket-sized wish tree, straight from Japan’s Star Festival, where people write dreams on colorful tanzaku paper and hang them on bamboo. It nods to the legend of Orihime and Hikoboshi—two star-crossed lovers who meet once a year across the Milky Way—so it’s perfect for posts about destiny, luck, or shooting your shot. Online, it’s the go-to for manifesting energy: new job? better grades? main character era? Drop this and let the universe cc: you. It also shows up in summer festival pics, anime watch nights, and any vibe that screams lanterns, yukata, and twinkle lights. Bonus use: a cheeky stand-in for “I’m wishing really hard but also I’m realistic,” aka the dramatic, slightly feral cousin of the dandelion wish.
Definition
Tanabata tree is the combination of a bamboo shoot and a wish made on a piece of paper that is tied to the bamboo shoot. Tanabata trees displayed on the Japanese holiday of Tanabata. The Tanabata holiday is inspired by a Chinese folklore story about two lovers that were forced to be apart for all but one day a year, the 7th day of the 7th month in the lunisolar calendar.
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Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.
This emoji first appeared in OSX / iOS after the iOS 5 update.
Emoji General Information
Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank)
810 of 2393
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ASCII Conversion
"Short Code" Name
:tanabata_tree:
Keywords
Tanabata, Tree, Festival, Star, Wish, Holiday
Unicode Category Information
Unicode Category
Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
Unicode Range
1F300–1F5FF
Unicode Subcategory
Celebration Symbols
Editorial Comment
Wait a moment. A star festival celebrated with wishes… Pinocchio and Jiminy, I've got a festival you would absolutely love! "When you wish upon a star…"
Proposed Unicode Information & Notes
Unicode Category
Artifacts
Unicode Subcategory
Celebration Symbols
Names & Annotations
TANABATA TREE = tanabata tree with wishing papers Temporary Notes: (七夕笹飾り)
Symbol Information
U+1F38B proposed
Proposal Identifier
e-521
Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes
DoCoMo
[七夕]
KDDI
#747 七夕笹飾り 「七夕笹飾ri」 U+EB3D SJIS-F441 JIS-7B22
Softbank
[七夕]
Emoji Character Encoding Data
Emoji Code Version
iOS 5 - Current
UTF-8 Unicode Character(s)
🎋
UTF-8 Character Count
1
Character(s) In Input
AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS)
🎋
Decimal HTML Entity
🎋
Hexadecimal HTML Entity
🎋
Hex Code Point(s)
1f38b
Formal Unicode Notation
U+1F38B
Decimal Code Point(s)
127883
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xF0 0x9F 0x8E 0x8B
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
F0 9F 8E 8B
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
360 237 216 213
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xD83C 0xDF8B
UTF-16 Hex
d83cdf8b
UTF-16 Dec
55356 57227
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0001F38B
UTF-32 Hex
01F38B
UTF-32 Dec
127883
Python Src
u"\U0001F38B"
PHP Src
"\xf0\x9f\x8e\x8b"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uD83C\uDF8B"
Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)
