Try Lotus emoji
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Meaning & usage
What does the Lotus emoji mean?
A pink lotus flower, open, floating on water.
Calm and still. It suits meditation, slow mornings and a quieter kind of beauty than the brighter flowers.
How to use 🪷 naturally
Calm, yoga and meditation posts, and aesthetic bios.
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 🪷
- 2021
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Lotus was first defined as emoji in Emoji 14.0, dated 2021. A release whose additions were quickly adopted as reactions.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
An open pink lotus seen from above, added in 2021. The flower carries meaning in Hinduism and Buddhism, where it stands for purity growing out of muddy water, and the proposal cited exactly that use.
- Today
How its use evolved
Calm, yoga and meditation posts, and aesthetic bios.
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.
Morning practice done 🪷
Slow Sunday 🪷
Found these on the lake 🪷
When to use it
Using 🪷 clearly
Calm, yoga and meditation posts, and aesthetic bios. It lands as lotus emoji or lotus flower emoji 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 lotus emoji
What does 🪷 mean in a text message?
A pink lotus flower, open, floating on water. Calm and still. It suits meditation, slow mornings and a quieter kind of beauty than the brighter flowers.
Is 🪷 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are lotus emoji, lotus flower emoji, 🪷 meaning, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 🪷 look different on another device?
U+1FAB7 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 lotus 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 lotus emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 🪷 as emoji in Emoji 14.0, dated 2021. 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+1FAB7 | 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 | \1FAB7 | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1FAB7} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%AA%B7 | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1FAB7
- Category
- Weather & Nature
- Also known as
- lotus emojilotus flower emoji🪷 meaning
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