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🕯️Candle Emoji
Unicode added 🕯️ candle in Unicode 7.0 (2014), filed under Objects → Light, Film & Video. Its codepoint is U+1F56F U+FE0F, and it is tagged light.
What 🕯️ candle means
Filming, photography and the act of looking closely all live here. 🎥 and 🎬️ tag video work, 📸 credits a photo, and the two magnifying glasses cover searching, investigating and zooming in on somebody else's mistake. 💡 means an idea, a convention borrowed from cartoons. The diya lamp 🪔, added in Emoji 12.0 in 2019, appears mainly around Diwali.
Unicode tags this one light and files it under Objects → Light, Film & Video.
Copy variants
candle carries a variation selector (U+FE0F) that forces colour rendering. Drop it and the same character renders as monochrome text.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
How 🕯️ is built
This emoji is more than one codepoint. Each part below is a character in its own right.
- 🕯U+1F56Fcandle
- ·U+FE0FVariation selector (emoji style)
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F56F U+FE0F | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🕯️ | |
| HTML decimal | 🕯️ | |
| CSS | \1F56F\FE0F | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F56F}\u{FE0F} | |
| Python | \U0001F56F\U0000FE0F | |
| Java / C# | \uD83D\uDD6F\uFE0F | |
| Rust | \u{1f56f}\u{fe0f} | |
| Swift | \u{1F56F}\u{FE0F} | |
| PHP | \u{1F56F}\u{FE0F} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%95%AF%EF%B8%8F | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 95 AF EF B8 8F | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83D DD6F FE0F | |
| Base64 | 8J+Vr++4jw== | |
| Decimal | 128367 65039 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 7.0 (2014) | |
Keywords
- light
Appears in these collections
How to type 🕯️
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “candle”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “light”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f56fand Enter. - HTML — paste
🕯️.
How 🕯️ renders
The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.
- 🕯️Apple
- 🕯️Segoe
- 🕯️Noto
- 🕯️System
Frequently asked questions
What does the 🕯️ candle emoji mean?+
🕯️ is the candle emoji, tagged light. Filming, photography and the act of looking closely all live here. 🎥 and 🎬️ tag video work, 📸 credits a photo, and the two magnifying glasses cover searching, investigating and zooming in on somebody else's mistake. 💡 means an idea, a convention borrowed from cartoons. The diya lamp 🪔, added in Emoji 12.0 in 2019, appears mainly around Diwali.
What is the Unicode code for 🕯️?+
candle is U+1F56F U+FE0F. In HTML that is 🕯️, in CSS \1F56F\FE0F, and in JavaScript \u{1F56F}\u{FE0F}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🕯️ emoji added?+
candle got its emoji presentation in Unicode 7.0 (2014). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.
Related emojis
More emojis from Light, Film & Video in Objects.
Added in Unicode 7.0 (2014)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🕯️ candle.