U+1F383 Jack-O-Lantern
U+1F383 was added to Unicode in version 6.0 (2010). It belongs to the block
This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. The character is also known as Hallowe'en.
The glyph is not a composition. It has a Wide East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Other Neutral and is not mirrored. In text U+1F383 behaves as Ideographic regarding line breaks. It has type Other for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.
The CLDR project labels this character “jack-o-lantern” for use in screen reading software. It assigns additional tags, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: celebration, halloween, jack, jack-o-lantern, lantern.
This character is designated as an emoji. It will be rendered as colorful emoji on conforming platforms. To reduce it to a monochrome character, you can combine it with
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
A jack-o'-lantern (or jack o'lantern) is a carved turnip, pumpkin or other root vegetable lantern, commonly associated with the Halloween holiday. Its name comes from the reported phenomenon of strange lights flickering over peat bogs, called will-o'-the-wisps or jack-o'-lanterns. The name is also tied to the Irish legend of Stingy Jack, a drunkard who bargains with Satan and is doomed to roam the Earth with only a hollowed turnip to light his way.
Jack-o'-lanterns carved from pumpkins are a yearly Halloween tradition that developed in the United States when Irish immigrants brought their root vegetable carving tradition with them.
In a jack-o'-lantern, the top of the pumpkin or turnip is cut off to form a lid, the inside flesh is scooped out, and an image—usually a scary or funny face—is carved out of the rind to expose the hollow interior. To create the lantern effect, a light source, traditionally a flame such as a candle or tealight, is placed within before the lid is closed. However, artificial jack-o'-lanterns with electric lights are also marketed. It is common to see jack-o'-lanterns used as external and internal decorations prior to and on Halloween.
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Nº | 127875 |
UTF-8 | F0 9F 8E 83 |
UTF-16 | D8 3C DF 83 |
UTF-32 | 00 01 F3 83 |
URL-Quoted | %F0%9F%8E%83 |
HTML hex reference | 🎃 |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | 🎃 |
alias | Hallowe'en |
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