What does 🎴 Flower Playing Cards mean?
A hanafuda card from the Japanese “flower cards” deck, in which each of the twelve months is represented by a plant or flower. The cards are used for games like Koi-Koi, and Nintendo started out in the 19th century as a maker of hanafuda. The emoji is used for Japanese card games and traditional art, and sometimes for card games in general.
🎴 Flower Playing Cards is an emoji from the Activities category (games & toys), added in Emoji 0.6 in 2010. People use it in messages about card, game and Japanese.
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🎴 Flower Playing Cards on Apple, Google, Microsoft & more
The code is the same everywhere, but every company draws its own artwork. This is how Flower Playing Cards looks on each platform.
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How do I copy and paste the Flower Playing Cards emoji?
Press the Copy button at the top of this page and 🎴 is copied to your clipboard. Then paste it anywhere with Ctrl+V, Cmd+V or a long press on your phone. In Slack, Discord and GitHub you can also type the shortcode :flower_playing_cards:.
When was the Flower Playing Cards emoji added?
🎴 Flower Playing Cards was added in Emoji 0.6, released in 2010. It is supported on all current versions of iOS, Android, Windows and macOS.
Why does 🎴 look different on my phone?
Every platform draws its own artwork for Flower Playing Cards. The underlying code (U+1F3B4) is the same everywhere, so the person you send it to always gets the same emoji, just in their device’s style. Compare the designs in the platform section above.