Try Cherry Blossom emoji
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Meaning & usage
What does the Cherry Blossom emoji mean?
Spring, fleeting beauty and gentleness.
Gentle, seasonal beauty. It suggests spring and softness, while Japanese cultural contexts may also evoke the temporary nature of life.
How to use 🌸 naturally
Seasonal posts and soft styling.
Nature emoji describe weather and places while also carrying emotional associations such as calm, hope, luck or change. They are common in captions because they establish a mood without a long explanation.
From standard to slang
The history of 🌸
- 2010
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Cherry Blossom was first defined as emoji in Emoji 0.6, dated 2010. That label is retrospective: Unicode applied it later to the early mobile core it inherited from the Japanese carriers.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
A five-petalled sakura. It marks a specific few weeks of the Japanese year, which is why it was in the earliest carrier sets and why it means spring rather than flowers.
- Today
How its use evolved
Seasonal posts and soft styling.
Dates follow Unicode’s official Emoji Versions chart. Versions before Emoji 1.0 are labelled retrospectively. See the history of emoji.
In conversation
Examples of 🌸 in messages
These examples show the emoji in complete messages, where the words make its intended tone easier to read.
Spring has finally arrived 🌸
The cherry trees are in bloom 🌸
A gentle reminder to enjoy the moment 🌸
When to use it
Using 🌸 clearly
Seasonal posts and soft styling. It lands as sakura or spring when the rest of the message supports that reading, and it is the surrounding words that do the deciding — so in a sensitive, professional or cross-cultural conversation, say the thing outright as well.
Common questions
About the cherry blossom emoji
What does 🌸 mean in a text message?
Spring, fleeting beauty and gentleness. Gentle, seasonal beauty. It suggests spring and softness, while Japanese cultural contexts may also evoke the temporary nature of life.
Is 🌸 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are sakura, spring, flower, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 🌸 look different on another device?
U+1F338 identifies the emoji; the picture is a font, drawn separately by Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung. Only the artwork changes, never the character.
How do I copy and paste the cherry blossom emoji?
Use the copy button at the top of this page. 🌸 is a character, not an image, so it pastes into messages, captions and filenames as ordinary text.
When was the cherry blossom emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 🌸 as emoji in Emoji 0.6, dated 2010. Early emoji version numbers can be retrospective, so this date describes its place in the standardised emoji set rather than the first-ever appearance of the underlying symbol.
For developers
🌸 in code
Every value below is generated from the character itself, so it stays correct even where a file encoding cannot hold the emoji directly.
| Format | Value | When to use it | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+1F338 | The standard reference. Use it to search a character map or a spec. | |
| HTML (hex) | 🌸 | For HTML and XML. Safe in files that are not saved as UTF-8. | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🌸 | The same reference in decimal. Both render identically. | |
| CSS | \1F338 | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F338} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%8C%B8 | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F338
- Category
- Weather & Nature
- Also known as
- sakuraspringflower
Put it in a message
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