New Year Greeting Emoji: Combos and Messages for Family, Clients and Friends
Emoji combos and ready-to-send lines for 2027 New Year greetings, with picks for family, clients and friends, Japanese nengajo style and copy-ready messages.
When the year winds down, you end up sending New Year greetings to dozens of people at once. The recipients vary, from the family group chat to your company's clients to a friend you haven't talked to in ages, and writing a new message every time isn't easy. That's where swapping just the emoji combo to fit the person makes the same greeting look like it was written for them alone.
This page collects emoji combos you can paste right into a 2027 New Year greeting, along with finished messages you can copy and send as they are. Hit the copy button next to a combo and it goes straight to your clipboard.
The basic set: New Year emoji that work for anyone
The classic emoji for a New Year mood are 🎆 (fireworks), 🎇 (sparkler), 🌅 (sunrise) and ✨ (sparkles). They bring to mind the midnight countdown and the first sunrise of the year, so they work across most relationships.
- 🎆✨The safest New Year combo
- 🌅✨Calm, like the first sunrise of the year
- 🎆🎇🎉A countdown mood
- 🧧✨A wish for good fortune
🧧 (red envelope) is based on the red envelopes used in China to hold New Year money and other gift money. In Korea, where people also celebrate Lunar New Year, it often goes on New Year greetings too, with the feeling of wishing good fortune or giving New Year's money.
2027 is the Year of the Sheep. If you'd like to include the zodiac animal, adding 🐑 (sheep) gives the greeting a feeling that it's tailored to this year.
- 🐑✨A 2027 Year of the Sheep greeting
- 🌅🐑🍀Sunrise, sheep and good luck too
For elders and clients: restraint is good manners
For parents, older relatives, bosses and clients, cut it down to one or two emoji. Calm ones like 🌅 or 🙏 (folded hands) read as more respectful than flashy fireworks.
- 🌅Neat and simple with one sunrise
- 🙏With thanks and hopes
- 🌅🙏New Year's resolve and thanks together
- 💐Respectful with one bouquet
The basic move is to put together a proper sentence first and attach the emoji at the very end. For example:
- Happy New Year! Thank you so much for all your kindness and support over the past year. I hope 2027 brings you good health and everything you're hoping for🌅
- Mom and Dad, Happy New Year! I hope you stay healthy this year and have plenty to smile about🙏
- Thank you for working with us this past year. We look forward to another great year together. Wishing your company continued success🙏
For a mass message to clients, leaving the emoji out entirely is also a good choice. When there are many recipients and you don't know each other's style, leaving them out is always the safe side.
For friends: festive and fired up
With friends, you can go all out. Mixing 🥂 (clinking glasses), 🎉 (party popper) and 🥳 (partying face) carries the excitement of a year-end party straight through.
- 🥂🎉A New Year toast
- 🥳🎆🥂The feeling of doing the countdown together
- 🎉🎊🥳🎆As loud as it gets
- 🥂✨🍀Only good things this year, wishing you luck
Between friends, dropping an emoji into the middle of a sentence feels natural too.
- Happy New Year🎆 Here's to another year with you! Let's finally take that trip in 2027🥂
- Happy New Year🧧 You worked so hard last year, and this year is going to be nothing but good things✨
- Can't believe it's already 2027🥳 Let's keep sticking together like this in the new year🎉
When you send to a lot of group chats at midnight, even if you're passing around the same message, swapping out one of the combos shows you made an effort.
Japanese New Year card style: 🎍 and the zodiac animal
In Japan, there's a culture of exchanging New Year cards called nengajo (年賀状), and the cards often feature the year's zodiac animal (eto, 干支). 2027 is a Year of the Sheep in Japan too (hitsuji-doshi, 未年), so 🐑 fits perfectly.
🎍 (pine decoration) is based on the kadomatsu (門松), the decoration set up in front of houses in Japan at the New Year. Adding it to a greeting for a Japanese friend or Japanese business contact brings in a Japanese New Year feel.
- 🎍🐑The Japanese New Year basic
- 🎍🌅✨With the first sunrise of the year (hatsuhinode, 初日の出)
- 🗻🦅🍆The three lucky first dreams
- 🎍🐑🙏Politely, looking forward to another year together
The 🗻🦅🍆 combo lines up the three things that are said to be lucky if they appear in your first dream of the year (hatsuyume, 初夢) in Japan: Mt. Fuji, a hawk and an eggplant. For someone who knows Japanese culture, it comes across as a clever greeting.
The Japanese New Year shorthand "akeome" (あけおめ) is short for あけましておめでとう (Happy New Year), and "kotoyoro" (ことよろ) is short for 今年もよろしく (let's have another great year). They're casual expressions used only between friends, so don't use them with someone senior.
5 copy-and-paste messages (English, Korean and Japanese)
Finally, here are finished messages you can copy and send as they are. Just tweak the names or the content to fit the situation.
English
- Polite: Happy New Year! Wishing you good health and a wonderful year ahead in 2027🌅
- For friends: Happy New Year🥂 Let’s make 2027 our best year yet🎉
Korean
- Polite, written in romanization (for family and elders): Saehae bok mani badeuseyo. Wishing you good health and peace all year long🌅
Japanese
- 🌅To go with the polite English greeting
- 🥂🎉To go with the English greeting for friends
- 🎆🍀To go with the Korean-style greeting
- 🎍🐑To go with the Japanese greeting
If you're in a group chat with friends from several countries, the safest choice is a combo that reads as New Year in any culture, like 🎆✨.
Last checked 2026-10-19