Candle Emoji 🕯
Emoji Meaning
A classic white-coloured burning candle, gradually disappearing as its wax is melting under the hot fire. People use this emoji for various occasions, such as birthdays, funeral, Halloween, or other topics related to light and warmth.
The symbol “Candle” is included in the “Miscellaneous symbols” subblock of the “Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 7.0 in 2014. In 2015, it was also approved as an Emoji in version 1.0 and added to the “Light & Video” subcategory of the “Objects” category.
| Unicode Name | Candle |
| Unicode Number | |
| HTML Code | |
| CSS Code | |
| Plane | 1: Supplementary Multilingual Plane |
| Unicode Block | Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs |
| Unicode Subblock | Miscellaneous symbols |
| Unicode Version | 7.0 (2014) |
| Emoji Version | 1.0 (2015) |
| Emoji Category | Objects |
| Emoji Subcategory | Light & Video |
| Emoji Name | Candle |
| Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) | None |
| Composition Exclusion | No |
| Case change | 1F56F |
| Simple case change | 1F56F |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | F0 9F 95 AF | 240 159 149 175 | 4036990383 | 11110000 10011111 10010101 10101111 |
| UTF-16BE | D8 3D DD 6F | 216 61 221 111 | 3627933039 | 11011000 00111101 11011101 01101111 |
| UTF-16LE | 3D D8 6F DD | 61 216 111 221 | 1037594589 | 00111101 11011000 01101111 11011101 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 01 F5 6F | 0 1 245 111 | 128367 | 00000000 00000001 11110101 01101111 |
| UTF-32LE | 6F F5 01 00 | 111 245 1 0 | 1878327552 | 01101111 11110101 00000001 00000000 |
