Pine Decoration Emoji
Bamboo with pine, the Japanese New Year decoration, used as the bamboo emoji.
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Meaning & usage
What does the Pine Decoration emoji mean?
Bamboo with pine, the Japanese New Year decoration, used as the bamboo emoji.
Festive in Japan and botanical elsewhere. Outside Japan most people use it for bamboo.
How to use 🎍 naturally
Japanese New Year, bamboo and plants.
Nature emoji describe weather and places while also carrying emotional associations such as calm, hope, luck or change. They are common in captions because they establish a mood without a long explanation.
From standard to slang
The history of 🎍
- 2010
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Pine Decoration was first defined as emoji in Emoji 0.6, dated 2010. That label is retrospective: Unicode applied it later to the early mobile core it inherited from the Japanese carriers.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
From the carrier set, the kadomatsu placed at Japanese homes for New Year. It is made of cut bamboo, which is why it doubles as the bamboo emoji.
- Today
How its use evolved
Japanese New Year, bamboo and plants.
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 New Year 🎍
Bamboo garden 🎍
Pandas love this 🎍
When to use it
Using 🎍 clearly
Japanese New Year, bamboo and plants. It lands as bamboo emoji or kadomatsu 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 pine decoration emoji
What does 🎍 mean in a text message?
Bamboo with pine, the Japanese New Year decoration, used as the bamboo emoji. Festive in Japan and botanical elsewhere. Outside Japan most people use it for bamboo.
Is 🎍 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are bamboo emoji, kadomatsu emoji, 🎍 meaning, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 🎍 look different on another device?
U+1F38D 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 pine decoration 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 pine decoration emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 🎍 as emoji in Emoji 0.6, dated 2010. 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+1F38D | 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 | \1F38D | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F38D} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%8E%8D | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F38D
- Category
- Weather & Nature
- Also known as
- bamboo emojikadomatsu emoji🎍 meaning
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