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🗾Map Of Japan Emoji
🗾 map of Japan — U+1F5FE, added in Unicode 6.0 (2010). Unicode groups it with the other 7 globes & maps emojis under Travel & Places.
What 🗾 map of Japan means
Globes and orientation. Unicode encodes three separate Earth characters — 🌍 Europe-Africa, 🌎 Americas, 🌏 Asia-Australia — so people can pick the face that shows their own region, and the choice is often deliberate. 🌐 has drifted almost entirely to the internet: websites, language switchers, anything global. 🗺️ and 🧭 do travel-planning and wanderlust duty.
Unicode tags this one japan, map and files it under Travel & Places → Globes & Maps.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F5FE | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🗾 | |
| HTML decimal | 🗾 | |
| CSS | \1F5FE | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F5FE} | |
| Python | \U0001F5FE | |
| Java / C# | \uD83D\uDDFE | |
| Rust | \u{1f5fe} | |
| Swift | \u{1F5FE} | |
| PHP | \u{1F5FE} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%97%BE | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 97 BE | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83D DDFE | |
| Base64 | 8J+Xvg== | |
| Decimal | 128510 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 6.0 (2010) | |
Keywords
- japan
- map
Appears in these collections
How to type 🗾
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “map of Japan”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “japan”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f5feand 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 🗾 map of Japan emoji mean?+
🗾 is the map of Japan emoji, tagged japan, map. Globes and orientation. Unicode encodes three separate Earth characters — 🌍 Europe-Africa, 🌎 Americas, 🌏 Asia-Australia — so people can pick the face that shows their own region, and the choice is often deliberate. 🌐 has drifted almost entirely to the internet: websites, language switchers, anything global. 🗺️ and 🧭 do travel-planning and wanderlust duty.
What is the Unicode code for 🗾?+
map of Japan is U+1F5FE. In HTML that is 🗾, in CSS \1F5FE, and in JavaScript \u{1F5FE}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🗾 emoji added?+
map of Japan 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 Globes & Maps in Travel & Places.
Added in Unicode 6.0 (2010)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🗾 map of Japan.