Red Envelope Emoji 🧧
Emoji Meaning
A red envelope, which is commonly used for presenting money on Chinese New Year (or for other happy occasions, like weddings). It's depicted as a red vertical envelope with a golden drawing, usually with a Chinese character 福 (fú, “luck, happiness”).
The symbol “Red Envelope” is included in the “Activities” subblock of the “Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 11.0 in 2018. In 2018, it was also approved as an Emoji in version 11.0 and added to the “Event” subcategory of the “Activities” category.
Synonyms
Red Envelope, ang pao, lai see, red packet.
| Unicode Name | Red Gift Envelope |
| Unicode Number | |
| HTML Code | |
| CSS Code | |
| Plane | 1: Supplementary Multilingual Plane |
| Unicode Block | Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs |
| Unicode Subblock | Activities |
| Unicode Version | 11.0 (2018) |
| Emoji Version | 11.0 (2018) |
| Emoji Category | Activities |
| Emoji Subcategory | Event |
| Emoji Name | Red Envelope |
| Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) | None |
| Composition Exclusion | No |
| Case change | 1F9E7 |
| Simple case change | 1F9E7 |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | F0 9F A7 A7 | 240 159 167 167 | 4036994983 | 11110000 10011111 10100111 10100111 |
| UTF-16BE | D8 3E DD E7 | 216 62 221 231 | 3627998695 | 11011000 00111110 11011101 11100111 |
| UTF-16LE | 3E D8 E7 DD | 62 216 231 221 | 1054402525 | 00111110 11011000 11100111 11011101 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 01 F9 E7 | 0 1 249 231 | 129511 | 00000000 00000001 11111001 11100111 |
| UTF-32LE | E7 F9 01 00 | 231 249 1 0 | 3891855616 | 11100111 11111001 00000001 00000000 |
