The flower playing cards emoji is a stylish nod to hanafuda, Japan’s ornate flower-themed card decks used for games like Koi-Koi. It signals game night, calculated risks, or that you’re about to “play your card” in a conversation—confession, plot twist, or spicy take included. Online, it doubles as classy casino vibes without the neon chaos, and often pops up with jokes like “you just activated my trap card,” even if that’s technically a different franchise. It’s also a low-key flex for anime watchers and Yakuza-game enjoyers who know their way around the blossoms.
On Apple/iOS, you’ll see a clean, glossy mini-fan of deep red cards with a crisp white sakura (cherry blossom) emblazoned in the center—thick black outlines, slight shading, angled like they’re mid-shuffle on a lacquered table. That bold red-and-white bloom is the instant giveaway. People use it to hint at luck, strategy, or “cards-on-the-table” honesty, and sometimes flirtatiously to suggest hidden moves or a mysterious aura. Cultural bonus: it nods to Nintendo’s origins making hanafuda, so it reads as both elegant and nerd-chic in one tidy stack.
Definition
A card from a deck of Japanese Hanafuda playing cards. The word Hanafuda means "flower cards." There are twelve (12) suits in a Hanafuda playing card set, one for each month of the year. This particular card represents the suit of August and is a special card named the Full Moon with Red Sky card. As with other varieties of playing cards, many different games can be played with a set of Hanafuda playing cards.
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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)
1785 of 2393
Apple/iOS Picture
Google Android Picture
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LG Emoji Picture
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Phantom Open Emoji Picture
Not created yet
ASCII Conversion
"Short Code" Name
:flower_playing_cards:
Keywords
Playing, Card, Flower, Game, August, Moon, Special
Unicode Category Information
Unicode Category
Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
Unicode Range
1F300–1F5FF
Unicode Subcategory
Game Symbols
Editorial Comment
You know someone is special when you send them the power of August, a flower and the moon.
Proposed Unicode Information & Notes
Unicode Category
Activities/work/entertainment
Unicode Subcategory
Game Symbols
Names & Annotations
FLOWER PLAYING CARDS = flower cards Temporary Notes: (花札)
Symbol Information
U+1F3B4 proposed
Proposal Identifier
e-811
Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes
DoCoMo
[花札]
KDDI
#796 花札 U+EB6E SJIS-F472 JIS-7B53
Softbank
[花札]
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)
1f3b4
Formal Unicode Notation
U+1F3B4
Decimal Code Point(s)
127924
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xF0 0x9F 0x8E 0xB4
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
F0 9F 8E B4
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
360 237 216 264
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xD83C 0xDFB4
UTF-16 Hex
d83cdfb4
UTF-16 Dec
55356 57268
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0001F3B4
UTF-32 Hex
01F3B4
UTF-32 Dec
127924
Python Src
u"\U0001F3B4"
PHP Src
"\xf0\x9f\x8e\xb4"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uD83C\uDFB4"
Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)
