Emoji Candle
About this character
The character 🕯️ is known as Emoji Candle and carries the Unicode code point U+1F56F, which is 128367 in decimal. It belongs to the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block (U+1F300–U+1F5FF), which gathers most of the emoji for objects, animals, food, weather and places.
In memory, 🕯️ takes 7 bytes in UTF-8 (0xF0 0x9F 0x95 0xAF 0xEF 0xB8 0x8F) and 3 in UTF-16 (0xD83D 0xDD6F 0xFE0F). That difference is why badly configured forms or databases garble this character: they assume one byte per character.
How to type 🕯️
| System | What to do |
|---|---|
| Windows | In Word or WordPad, type 1F56F and press Alt + X to turn the code into the character. |
| macOS | On a Mac, open the Character Viewer with Ctrl + ⌘ + Space and search for “Emoji Candle”. |
| Linux | On Linux (GTK), type Ctrl + ⇧ + U, 1F56F then press Enter. |
| HTML / Web | In an HTML page, write 🕯. Use \1F56F in CSS, \u{1F56F} in JavaScript and \U0001F56F in Python. |
| On this site | The simplest route is the Copy button above: the character goes straight to your clipboard, ready to paste anywhere. |
Keyboards that include 🕯️
This character is not on any common physical layout, so the Copy button above is the quickest way to get it into a document.
Codes and encodings
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Code point | U+1F56F |
| Unicode block | Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs (U+1F300–U+1F5FF) |
| Decimal | 128367 |
| Hexadecimal | 0x1F56F |
| Octal | 0372557 |
| Binary | 11111010101101111 |
| UTF-8 bytes | 0xF0 0x9F 0x95 0xAF 0xEF 0xB8 0x8F |
| UTF-16 units | 0xD83D 0xDD6F 0xFE0F |
| Named HTML entity | None |
| Decimal HTML entity | 🕯 |
| Hex HTML entity | 🕯 |
| CSS escape | \1F56F |
| JavaScript escape | \u{1F56F} |
| Python escape | \U0001F56F |
| URL encoding | %F0%9F%95%AF%EF%B8%8F |
Frequently asked questions
What is the Unicode code for 🕯️?
Its code point is U+1F56F, which is 128367 in decimal and 0372557 in octal. In HTML you can write it as 🕯 or 🕯.
Why does 🕯️ show up as a box or a question mark?
An empty box means the font has no glyph for U+1F56F. The character is still in the text: switching to a font that covers the block (Noto, DejaVu or Segoe UI Symbol) makes it appear.
Can I use 🕯️ in a filename, a URL or a password?
In a URL it must be encoded as %F0%9F%95%AF%EF%B8%8F. Modern filesystems accept it, though it is still risky when moving files between systems. For passwords, some forms reject non-ASCII characters outright.