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🎎Japanese Dolls Emoji
🎎 is the Japanese dolls emoji, U+1F38E, one of 21 in the Events & Holidays set. It arrived with Unicode 6.0 (2010) and is commonly used for celebration, doll and dolls.
What 🎎 Japanese dolls means
Holidays and celebrations, plus a Japanese seasonal calendar most Western users never touch: 🎋 tanabata tree, 🎍 pine decoration, 🎎 dolls, 🎏 carp streamer and 🎑 moon viewing all came from the carrier sets. Elsewhere 🎉 and 🎊 announce good news, 🎃 and 🎄 do the two biggest holidays, and ✨ wraps a phrase in sarcasm or emphasis.
Unicode tags this one celebration, doll and dolls and files it under Activities → Events & Holidays.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F38E | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🎎 | |
| HTML decimal | 🎎 | |
| CSS | \1F38E | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F38E} | |
| Python | \U0001F38E | |
| Java / C# | \uD83C\uDF8E | |
| Rust | \u{1f38e} | |
| Swift | \u{1F38E} | |
| PHP | \u{1F38E} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%8E%8E | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 8E 8E | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83C DF8E | |
| Base64 | 8J+Ojg== | |
| Decimal | 127886 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 6.0 (2010) | |
Keywords
Appears in these collections
How to type 🎎
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “Japanese dolls”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “celebration”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f38eand 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 dolls emoji mean?+
🎎 is the Japanese dolls emoji, tagged celebration, doll and dolls. Holidays and celebrations, plus a Japanese seasonal calendar most Western users never touch: 🎋 tanabata tree, 🎍 pine decoration, 🎎 dolls, 🎏 carp streamer and 🎑 moon viewing all came from the carrier sets. Elsewhere 🎉 and 🎊 announce good news, 🎃 and 🎄 do the two biggest holidays, and ✨ wraps a phrase in sarcasm or emphasis.
What is the Unicode code for 🎎?+
Japanese dolls is U+1F38E. In HTML that is 🎎, in CSS \1F38E, and in JavaScript \u{1F38E}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🎎 emoji added?+
Japanese dolls 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 Events & Holidays in Activities.
Added in Unicode 6.0 (2010)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🎎 Japanese dolls.