What does 🏮 mean. 🏮 Meaning: red paper lantern emoji, bar emoji, Japanese emoji, lantern emoji, light emoji, red emoji. Red Paper Lantern as emoji was first used in 2010 and belongs to the category Objects - Light & Video. Also in the above tables you will find 🏮 meaning, 🏮 code HTML, what image is used to represent this emoji, or some of the codes used in programming languages as string data to display 🏮 emoji.