Try Wilted Flower emoji
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Meaning & usage
What does the Wilted Flower emoji mean?
A drooping red flower, the black rose and sadness emoji.
Melancholy. It is the flower of heartbreak.
How to use 🥀 naturally
Heartbreak, sadness, endings and moody aesthetics.
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 🥀
- 2016
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Wilted Flower was first defined as emoji in Emoji 3.0, dated 2016. Part of the rapid mid-decade expansion beyond the original mobile set.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
Added in 2016, a red rose drooping on its stem. It is the nearest thing to a black rose on the keyboard.
- Today
How its use evolved
Heartbreak, sadness, endings and moody aesthetics.
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.
It's over 🥀
Some things fade 🥀
Moody playlist 🥀
When to use it
Using 🥀 clearly
Heartbreak, sadness, endings and moody aesthetics. It lands as black rose emoji or dead rose 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 wilted flower emoji
What does 🥀 mean in a text message?
A drooping red flower, the black rose and sadness emoji. Melancholy. It is the flower of heartbreak.
Is 🥀 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are black rose emoji, dead rose emoji, 🥀 meaning, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 🥀 look different on another device?
U+1F940 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 wilted flower 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 wilted flower emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 🥀 as emoji in Emoji 3.0, dated 2016. 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+1F940 | 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 | \1F940 | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F940} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%A5%80 | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F940
- Category
- Weather & Nature
- Also known as
- black rose emojidead rose emoji🥀 meaning
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