Diya Lamp

🪔 Diya Lamp emoji is a brass or backed clay cup filled with Oil or Ghee with a flaming wick. The word Diya means "light", "splendor" in several languages of South Asia. Diya word is originated from the Sanskrit word "dīpa" which means "light", "lamp", "lantern". 🪔 Diya is native to the Indian subcontinent and commonly used in Hindu, Sikh, Jain culture to worship the god or as a symbol of celebration.

Diya is vital in Hindu culture to signify purity, goodness, good luck, and power. The light of 🪔 Diya means the non-existence of darkness and evil forces.

🕯 candle, 🏮red paper lantern, 💡 electric light bulb and 🔦 Tourch are the emojis which can be used as a source of light in conversations.

🪔 Diya Lamp emoji was submitted by Anshuman Pandey in July 2017 and accepted for Unicode 12.0 in 2019 and added to emoji version 12.0 in 2019 under the light & video category

How 🪔 Diya Lamp emoji is used?

there are multiple usages of the diya emoji in the conversations.

• Cultural
  • Wish you a happy and prosperous Diwali 🪔.
  • Victory of light 🪔 over darkness.
• As an Object
  • When bulbs were not invented, people used lamps 🪔 for lighting.
  • why don't you use a diya 🪔 if there is no light?
• Paired with other emojis
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