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At first I thought it was a typo, but inserting the character 煜 into birthday
wishes or the like seems to be common, e.g.

> おめでとう **煜** ございます  
>  おめでとうございます **煜**  
>  おめでとう **煜** ございます **煜**

I have several problems:

  1. **What does it mean?**  
WWWJDIC has "bright, shining, brilliant", which sort of fits.

  2. **How is it pronounced (if at all)?**  
The readings given in WWWJDIC are イク, オウ, かがや・く, although none of them look
like a particularly meaningful interjection.

  3. **How is it typed?**  
None of the readings イク, オウ, かがや・く, produce the character in my IME (although
I do get 燠, which has the readings イク, オウ, おき and あたたか・い).
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What does おめでとう煜ございます mean?
According to [a very similar online
discussion](http://okwave.jp/qa/q6382943.html), @Darius and @Earthling are on
the right track. 煜 is a non-keitai rendering of the "banana" emoji.

As for "Why banana?", this [brief online
chat](http://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail/q1215108032)
suggests there's no literal meaning. Rather, it's for atmosphere, replacing
the closing ○ mark with something brighter.

Cheers.
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It is now clear that 煜 was never intended to mean anything related to the
kanji. In that sense it is a typo introduced by reading a 携帯 message on a
computer. I did find an alternative to the banana hypothesis, though:

煜 [maps to the smiley face (:D)](http://d.hatena.ne.jp/NAOI/20120423) on the
SoftBank iPhone (see the middle character):

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/tcTX3.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/tcTX3.png)
[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/PAVTV.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/PAVTV.png)
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