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🪔Diya Lamp Emoji
🪔 diya lamp — U+1FA94, added in Emoji 12.0 (2019). Unicode groups it with the other 16 light, film & video emojis under Objects.
What 🪔 diya lamp 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 diya, lamp and light and files it under Objects → Light, Film & Video.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1FA94 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🪔 | |
| HTML decimal | 🪔 | |
| CSS | \1FA94 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1FA94} | |
| Python | \U0001FA94 | |
| Java / C# | \uD83E\uDE94 | |
| Rust | \u{1fa94} | |
| Swift | \u{1FA94} | |
| PHP | \u{1FA94} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%AA%94 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F AA 94 | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83E DE94 | |
| Base64 | 8J+qlA== | |
| Decimal | 129684 | |
| Introduced | Emoji 12.0 (2019) | |
Keywords
- diya
- lamp
- light
- oil
Appears in these collections
How to type 🪔
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “diya lamp”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “diya”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1fa94and 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 🪔 diya lamp emoji mean?+
🪔 is the diya lamp emoji, tagged diya, lamp and 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 🪔?+
diya lamp is U+1FA94. In HTML that is 🪔, in CSS \1FA94, and in JavaScript \u{1FA94}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🪔 emoji added?+
diya lamp got its emoji presentation in Emoji 12.0 (2019). 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 Emoji 12.0 (2019)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🪔 diya lamp.