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Meaning & usage
What does the Diya Lamp emoji mean?
A small oil lamp with a lit wick, used at Diwali and other festivals.
Warm and ceremonial. It suits festival greetings and messages of hope, and it is more specific than a candle.
How to use 🪔 naturally
Diwali greetings, festivals of light and a quiet wish for someone.
Object emoji usually point to an activity or topic rather than an emotion. They work well as labels in lists, captions and announcements, where the image makes the subject easy to scan.
From standard to slang
The history of 🪔
- 2019
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Diya Lamp was first defined as emoji in Emoji 12.0, dated 2019. A broad release, and the one that filled in several long-standing gaps.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
A clay lamp with a cotton wick burning in oil, added in 2019 after a proposal for a symbol of Diwali. Until then the festival had no character of its own.
- Today
How its use evolved
Diwali greetings, festivals of light and a quiet wish for someone.
Dates follow Unicode’s official Emoji Versions chart. Versions before Emoji 1.0 are labelled retrospectively. See the history of emoji.
In conversation
Examples of 🪔 in messages
These examples show the emoji in complete messages, where the words make its intended tone easier to read.
Happy Diwali to you and yours 🪔
Lamps are lit 🪔
Wishing you a bright year 🪔
When to use it
Using 🪔 clearly
Diwali greetings, festivals of light and a quiet wish for someone. It lands as diya emoji or diwali emoji when the rest of the message supports that reading, and it is the surrounding words that do the deciding — so in a sensitive, professional or cross-cultural conversation, say the thing outright as well.
Common questions
About the diya lamp emoji
What does 🪔 mean in a text message?
A small oil lamp with a lit wick, used at Diwali and other festivals. Warm and ceremonial. It suits festival greetings and messages of hope, and it is more specific than a candle.
Is 🪔 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are diya emoji, diwali emoji, 🪔 meaning, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 🪔 look different on another device?
U+1FA94 identifies the emoji; the picture is a font, drawn separately by Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung. Only the artwork changes, never the character.
How do I copy and paste the diya lamp emoji?
Use the copy button at the top of this page. 🪔 is a character, not an image, so it pastes into messages, captions and filenames as ordinary text.
When was the diya lamp emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 🪔 as emoji in Emoji 12.0, dated 2019. Early emoji version numbers can be retrospective, so this date describes its place in the standardised emoji set rather than the first-ever appearance of the underlying symbol.
For developers
🪔 in code
Every value below is generated from the character itself, so it stays correct even where a file encoding cannot hold the emoji directly.
| Format | Value | When to use it | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+1FA94 | The standard reference. Use it to search a character map or a spec. | |
| HTML (hex) | 🪔 | For HTML and XML. Safe in files that are not saved as UTF-8. | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🪔 | The same reference in decimal. Both render identically. | |
| CSS | \1FA94 | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1FA94} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%AA%94 | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1FA94
- Category
- Objects & Tech
- Also known as
- diya emojidiwali emoji🪔 meaning
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