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Red Paper Lantern Emoji Meaning
A red paper lantern, as hangs outside an izakaya, a Japanese bar that serves drinks and casual food. Generally depicted as cylindrical with a black top and base and soft, orange glow.
May be used to represent various lights and lanterns as well as for its red color.
Red Paper Lantern was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 under the name "Izakaya Lantern" and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.