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🧧 Red envelope

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🧧 Emoji meaning

Prosperity, blessings, hongbao, cash gift, Chinese New Year.

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🧧 Meaning

I wish for money for my birthday! At Chinese festivals or weddings people almost always present gifts of money in red envelopes (Hong Bao). Symbol of prosperity, destiny and happiness.

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Commonly confused with

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Red envelope

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Red envelope vs money bag; both associated with gifting money, especially during festivals.

Emoji History

Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexicon

First included

The emoji “Red envelope” was approved as part of Unicode 11.0 in 2018 and added to Emoji 11.0 .

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

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ envelope + good + lai + luck + red + see

Keywords removed

- good luck - lai see - red envelope

In the release of Emoji 11.0 and Unicode 11.0 in 2018 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ gift + good luck + hóngbāo + lai see + money + red envelope

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