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⛩️Shinto Shrine Emoji
Unicode added ⛩️ shinto shrine in Unicode 7.0 (2014), filed under Travel & Places → Religious Buildings. Its codepoint is U+26E9 U+FE0F, and it is tagged religion, shinto and shrine.
What ⛩️ shinto shrine means
Six houses of worship, used for religious holidays, life events and identity in bios more than for architecture. ⛪️ does weddings and funerals as much as faith; 🕌 and 🕋 turn up around Ramadan and Hajj; ⛩️ is read as Japan generally, not only Shinto. 🛕 hindu temple was a late addition, arriving in Emoji 12.0.
Unicode tags this one religion, shinto and shrine and files it under Travel & Places → Religious Buildings.
Copy variants
shinto shrine 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+26E9shinto shrine
- ·U+FE0FVariation selector (emoji style)
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+26E9 U+FE0F | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | ⛩️ | |
| HTML decimal | ⛩️ | |
| CSS | \26E9\FE0F | |
| JavaScript | \u{26E9}\u{FE0F} | |
| Python | \U000026E9\U0000FE0F | |
| Java / C# | \u26E9\uFE0F | |
| Rust | \u{26e9}\u{fe0f} | |
| Swift | \u{26E9}\u{FE0F} | |
| PHP | \u{26E9}\u{FE0F} | |
| URL encoded | %E2%9B%A9%EF%B8%8F | |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 9B A9 EF B8 8F | |
| UTF-16 bytes | 26E9 FE0F | |
| Base64 | 4pup77iP | |
| Decimal | 9961 65039 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 7.0 (2014) | |
Keywords
- religion
- shinto
- shrine
How to type ⛩️
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “shinto shrine”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “religion”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type26e9and 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 ⛩️ shinto shrine emoji mean?+
⛩️ is the shinto shrine emoji, tagged religion, shinto and shrine. Six houses of worship, used for religious holidays, life events and identity in bios more than for architecture. ⛪️ does weddings and funerals as much as faith; 🕌 and 🕋 turn up around Ramadan and Hajj; ⛩️ is read as Japan generally, not only Shinto. 🛕 hindu temple was a late addition, arriving in Emoji 12.0.
What is the Unicode code for ⛩️?+
shinto shrine is U+26E9 U+FE0F. In HTML that is ⛩️, in CSS \26E9\FE0F, and in JavaScript \u{26E9}\u{FE0F}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the ⛩️ emoji added?+
shinto shrine 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.
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Added in Unicode 7.0 (2014)
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