U+1F9E7 · emoji since 2018
The red envelope holds money given for luck, a Lunar New Year tradition. It means gifts, good fortune, and celebration.
It headlines Chinese New Year, weddings, and birthdays, the lucky red packet of well wishes and cash.
In texting, 🧧 does not carry a widely used hidden or slang meaning, so you can usually take it at face value. People send it just as it looks, to add a little visual touch or set the mood of a message. Only a handful of emoji have a separate texting code, and 🧧 is not really one of them.
Its official Unicode name is the Red Envelope emoji. In everyday chat most people just call it the red envelope emoji or describe what it shows. Copy and paste it from the button at the top of this page.
The 🧧 leads off a short phrase, and the rest of the words are written in cipher, every letter disguised as another emoji. Tap decipher to reveal the whole line.
Or make your own cipher in the translator.