Wilted flower Emoji

Animals

A drooping, faded red rose with a bent green stem and a single falling petal. It serves as the direct, mournful counterpart to the healthy, vibrant 🌹.

Usage Context

This emoji is frequently used to express sadness, heartbreak, or the end of a relationship. It is also a go-to for representing decay, missed opportunities, or a somber mood, often replacing words when someone wants to signal that they are feeling low or 'wilting' under pressure.

History

Added to the Unicode standard in 2016 as part of Emoji 3.0, it was introduced to provide a way to convey negative emotions or the passage of time without relying solely on sad faces. Its design leans on the classic visual trope of a dying flower as a shorthand for tragedy in Western culture.

Details

Glyph

🥀

Unicode

U+1F940

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f940:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDD40;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category Animals

Subcategory plant-flower

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License Apache-2.0 / OFL-1.1

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Google. © Google Inc. Licensed under Apache License 2.0 and SIL Open Font License 1.1 where applicable.

Noto Color Emoji graphics are copyrighted by Google Inc. and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Font files may also be subject to the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.

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