🎑 Moon Viewing Ceremony

Unicode lists 🎑 Moon Viewing Ceremony among the celebrations in the Activities group. It usually appears in messages about celebration, ceremony, moon and viewing.

🎑 works in messages, comments, captions and profile names. On SmileyZone it is filed under Weather and Seasons. It joined the standard with Emoji 0.6 in 2010, so support on current devices is reliable. Its code point is U+1F391.

• A single 🎑 is often enough to set the tone.
• Fits messages about celebration, ceremony, moon and viewing.
• Often seen near 🎐 Wind Chime, 🧧 Red Envelope and 🎏 Carp Streamer.

The image shows tsukimi, the Japanese autumn moon-viewing. At the full moon of the eighth lunar month, pampas grass and white rice dumplings are set out and the moon contemplated – a tradition taken over from China.

Where the West sees a face in the moon, Japan and China see a rabbit pounding rice cakes. The same pattern, two readings.

• 🎑🎍 – Moon Viewing Ceremony and Pine Decoration
• 🎑🎐 – Moon Viewing Ceremony with Wind Chime
• 🎑🎟️ – Moon Viewing Ceremony plus Admission Tickets
• 🎑🧧 – Moon Viewing Ceremony and Red Envelope
• 🎑🎋 – Moon Viewing Ceremony with Tanabata Tree
• 🎑🎀 – Moon Viewing Ceremony plus Ribbon
• 🎑🎊 – Moon Viewing Ceremony and Confetti Ball
• 🎑🎫 – Moon Viewing Ceremony with Ticket

Easy to mix up with 🎐 Wind Chime, 🧧 Red Envelope or 🎏 Carp Streamer. They sit in the same Unicode subgroup and look similar at small sizes, so it is worth checking the name before sending.