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🕎 Menorah

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🕎 Emoji meaning

Hanukkah, Jewish festival, nine-branched menorah.

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🕎 Meaning

The Chanukkia is a nine-armed candlestick and is lit only at the Jewish Chanukka festival. Each candle stands for one day of the eight-day festival. With the ninth candle the others are ignited, respectively.

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Menorah

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Yin yang vs menorah; both religious/spiritual symbols used in discussions of faith or philosophy.

Menorah

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Menorah vs synagogue; religious Jewish candelabrum vs building, both for Jewish holidays.

Emoji History

Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexicon

First included

The emoji “Menorah” was approved as part of Unicode 8.0 in 2015 and added to Emoji 1.0 .

In the release of Emoji 16.0 and Unicode 16.0 in 2024 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ hanukkah + jewish + judaism

In the release of Emoji 5.0 and Unicode 10.0 in 2017 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ menorah

In the release of Emoji 3.0 and Unicode 9.0 in 2016 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ candelabrum + candlestick + religion

In the release of Emoji 2.0 and Unicode 8.0 in 2015 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords removed

- candelabrum - candlestick - menorah

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