Cactus Emoji

Animals

A green, prickly desert plant with a thick, succulent stem and small brown thorns. It features two smaller arm-like branches growing from the main body, representing a classic Saguaro cactus silhouette.

Usage Context

This emoji is frequently used to represent hot weather, desert landscapes, or Arizona. It also serves as a playful way to describe someone who is being 'prickly' or difficult to get close to, often paired with the 🥵 face when discussing heat or the 🏜️ landscape.

History

The cactus was added to the Unicode standard in 2010 as part of the initial push to bring more natural world and environment icons to mobile messaging platforms. Its inclusion helped users better communicate location and outdoor settings in early smartphone text exchanges.

Details

Glyph

🌵

Unicode

U+1F335

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f335:

HTML Entity

&#xD83C;&#xDF35;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category Animals

Subcategory plant-other

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0

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