Shady Characters advent calendar 2025: HOT SPRINGS

♨️ HOT SPRINGS, aka Unicode code points 0x2668 and 0xFE0F . You would be forgiven for wondering what, exactly, this emoji (♨️) is meant to represent. Well, if the title has not already given the game away, I will tell you: this is the HOT SPRINGS emoji, 1 and in emoji terms at least, it is positively antediluvian. Not only that, but ‘♨️’ gives us a peek behind the Unicode curtain – Unicode being…