U+1F54E Menorah with Nine Branches
U+1F54E was added in Unicode version 8.0 in 2015. It belongs to the block Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs in the Supplementary Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. The character is also known as hanukiah.
The glyph is not a composition. Its East Asian Width is wide. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+1F54E offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts.
The CLDR project calls this character “menorah” for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: candelabrum, candlestick, hanukkah, jewish, judaism, religion.
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 Variation Selector-15: 🕎︎ See the Emojipedia for more details on this character’s emoji properties.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
A Hanukkah menorah, or hanukkiah, is a nine-branched candelabrum lit during the eight-day Jewish holiday of Hanukkah. Eight of the nine branches hold lights (candles or oil lamps) that symbolize the eight nights of the holiday; on each night, one more light is lit than the previous night, until on the final night all eight branches are ignited. The ninth branch holds a candle, called the shamash ("helper" or "servant"), which is used to light the other eight.
The Hanukkah menorah commemorates, but is distinct from, the seven-branched menorah used in the ancient Temple in Jerusalem. Along with the seven-branched menorah and the Star of David, it is among the most widely produced articles of Jewish ceremonial art.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 128334 |
| UTF-8 | F0 9F 95 8E |
| UTF-16 | D8 3D DD 4E |
| UTF-32 | 00 01 F5 4E |
| URL-Quoted | %F0%9F%95%8E |
| HTML hex reference | 🕎 |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | 🕎 |
| alias | hanukiah |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 94 39 EA 38 |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
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| 8.0 (2015) | |
| MENORAH WITH NINE BRANCHES | |
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| Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows | |
| Other Symbol | |
| Common | |
| Other Neutral | |
| Not Reordered | |
| none | |
| Menorah with Nine Branches | |
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| Menorah with Nine Branches | |
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| Menorah with Nine Branches | |
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| Menorah with Nine Branches | |
| Any | |
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| ✘ | |
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| 0 | |
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| None | |
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| NA | |
| Other | |
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| ✘ | |
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| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Menorah with Nine Branches | |
| Yes | |
| Menorah with Nine Branches | |
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| Menorah with Nine Branches | |
| None | |
| wide | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Ideographic | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Menorah with Nine Branches | |
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