Wind Chime
Campanas de viento
A wind chime is an instrument or object designed to make sounds or play music when the wind blows. A music instrument played by the wind. This particular wind chime is a Japanese glass wind bell, called a Fūrin. The hanging card provides something for the wind to push against. Some believe that wind chimes scare away evil spirits. A spiritual, protective and soothing emoji.
Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.
- This emoji was part of the proprietary / non-standardized emoji set first introduced by Japanese carriers like Softbank. These emojis became part of the Apple iPhone starting in iOS 2.2 as an unlockable feature on handsets sold in English speaking countries.
- In iOS 5 / OSX 10.7, the underlying code that the Apple OS generates for this emoji was changed.
Emoji General Information
Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) |
1139 of 2393 |
Apple/iOS Picture |
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Google Android Picture |
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Google Hangouts Picture |
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Twitter.com Picture |
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LG Emoji Picture |
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Samsung Emoji Picture |
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Phantom Open Emoji Picture |
Not created yet |
ASCII Conversion |
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"Short Code" Name |
:wind_chime: |
Keywords |
Wind, Chime, Bell, Fūrin, Instrument, Music, Spirits, Soothing, Protective, Spiritual, Sound |
Previous Names: |
Japanese Traditional Wind Chime |
Unicode Category Information
Unicode Category |
Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs |
Unicode Range |
1F300–1F5FF |
Unicode Subcategory |
Celebration Symbols |
Editorial Comment
A wind chime with a message attached on it. Probably an ancient proverb. It's a wind bell!
Proposed Unicode Information & Notes
Unicode Category |
Artifacts |
Unicode Subcategory |
Celebration Symbols |
Names & Annotations |
WIND CHIME Temporary Notes: Wind chime, wind bell (風鈴) |
Symbol Information |
U+1F390 proposed |
Proposal Identifier |
e-51E |
Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes
DoCoMo |
[風鈴] |
KDDI |
#486 風鈴 U+EAED SJIS-F3C1 JIS-7A43 |
Softbank |
#316 #old413 風鈴 U+E442 SJIS-FB83 |
Emoji Character Encoding Data
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