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🏯Japanese Castle Emoji
Tagged building, castle and japanese, 🏯 Japanese castle sits in Unicode's Buildings group inside Travel & Places. It was introduced in Unicode 6.0 (2010) at U+1F3EF.
What 🏯 Japanese castle means
Buildings mark a place in a story: 🏠 for home, 🏥 for a hospital visit, 🏫 for school runs, 🏦 for money talk. The set is visibly inherited from Japanese carrier emoji — Unicode carries both 🏣 Japanese post office and 🏤 post office as separate characters, and 🏩 love hotel exists because the source sets had one.
Unicode tags this one building, castle and japanese and files it under Travel & Places → Buildings.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F3EF | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🏯 | |
| HTML decimal | 🏯 | |
| CSS | \1F3EF | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F3EF} | |
| Python | \U0001F3EF | |
| Java / C# | \uD83C\uDFEF | |
| Rust | \u{1f3ef} | |
| Swift | \u{1F3EF} | |
| PHP | \u{1F3EF} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%8F%AF | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 8F AF | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83C DFEF | |
| Base64 | 8J+Prw== | |
| Decimal | 127983 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 6.0 (2010) | |
Keywords
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How to type 🏯
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “Japanese castle”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “building”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f3efand 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 🏯 Japanese castle emoji mean?+
🏯 is the Japanese castle emoji, tagged building, castle and japanese. Buildings mark a place in a story: 🏠 for home, 🏥 for a hospital visit, 🏫 for school runs, 🏦 for money talk. The set is visibly inherited from Japanese carrier emoji — Unicode carries both 🏣 Japanese post office and 🏤 post office as separate characters, and 🏩 love hotel exists because the source sets had one.
What is the Unicode code for 🏯?+
Japanese castle is U+1F3EF. In HTML that is 🏯, in CSS \1F3EF, and in JavaScript \u{1F3EF}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🏯 emoji added?+
Japanese castle got its emoji presentation in Unicode 6.0 (2010). 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 Buildings in Travel & Places.
Added in Unicode 6.0 (2010)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🏯 Japanese castle.