Flower Symbols

Blossoms drawn as text — ✿ ❀ ❁ ✾ and the fleur-de-lis ⚜ — keep your text colour, where 🌸 and 🌹 arrive in full colour at emoji size. Click one to take it; ❀ repeated makes a border that stays readable when the text is small.

Copy and Paste Flower Symbols

The 31 characters above split into two kinds, and picking the wrong kind is the usual reason a flower looks out of place. Fourteen of them — ✿ ❀ ❁ ❃ ✾ and the rest — are text, so they take the colour and size of the words around them. The other seventeen are emoji and arrive in full colour at their own size whatever the text is doing. Click the one that suits where it is going.

What Are Flower Symbols?

The text ones are florettes: stylised blooms from the Dingbats block at U+273C to U+2743, drawn in the 1970s for a typesetting font and folded into Unicode in 1993. They were never pictures of particular flowers, which is why ✿ has no species and no colour — it is a shape, the way a bullet or an asterisk is a shape.

The emoji came thirty years later and work the opposite way round. 🌸 is specifically a cherry blossom, 🌻 a sunflower, 🌷 a tulip, and each is drawn differently by Apple, Google and Microsoft. That is the trade: a named flower everyone recognises, or a shape that matches your text exactly.

How to Use Flower Symbols

Copying Flower Symbols

Click any character in the grid and it goes to your clipboard bare, with no spacing added.

Pasting Flower Symbols Into Apps

Ctrl+V on Windows and Linux, Cmd+V on Mac, long-press and Paste on a phone. The text florettes go anywhere text goes, including places that reject emoji — a filename, a spreadsheet header, a printed document.

Choosing Between Text and Emoji Flower Symbols

If the flower has to sit inside a sentence, or match a heading colour, or print in black, use a florette. If it has to be recognisable as a specific bloom at a glance in a chat message, use the emoji. ❀ beside a name reads as decoration; 🌹 beside a name reads as a rose.

Types of Flower Symbols

Text Flower Symbols

Seven florettes carry the flower shape properly: ✿ filled with a dark centre, ❀ the same outline unfilled, ❁ eight petals in outline, ✾ six petals filled, and the spoked forms ❃ ✽ ✼, whose petals taper to teardrops. ⚘ is the odd one out — it is literally named Flower and is drawn as a stem with a bloom rather than a rosette, which makes it the only one that reads as a plant rather than a pattern.

Emoji Flower Symbols

Ten named blooms: 🌸 cherry blossom, 🌹 rose, 🌺 hibiscus, 🌻 sunflower, 🌼 blossom, 🌷 tulip, 🪻 hyacinth, 🪷 lotus, 💐 a bouquet, 💮 the white flower stamp, and 💮 the white flower stamp. One is worth knowing about: 💮 is a Japanese school mark meaning well done, not a botanical flower.

Leaf and Plant Flower Symbols

Eight characters here are foliage rather than flowers, and they are on the page because people reach for them in the same breath: ☘ shamrock and 🍀 four-leaf clover, 🌱 seedling, 🌿 herb, 🍃 leaves in the wind, 🍂 fallen leaf, 🍁 maple, and 🌾 a sheaf of rice. ☘ is the only one of the eight that is a text character.

Ornamental Flower Symbols

Five are ornaments rather than plants. ⚜ is the fleur-de-lis, a heraldic lily used on flags and crests for eight centuries. ❦ and ❧ are floral hearts, the second rotated — they are typographic dinkuses, placed between sections of a book. ⁕ is formally a flower punctuation mark and behaves like an asterisk. 🏵 is a rosette — a ribbon award rather than a bloom, and the only pictorial character here that defaults to text rather than colour.

Best Uses for Flower Symbols

Flower Symbols in Bios and Usernames

A florette is one character wide and inherits your colour, so ❀ or ✿ sits either side of a name without pushing the line height around the way an emoji does. Fields that strip emoji usually keep them, which is the practical reason to prefer them in a display name.

Flower Symbols as Borders and Dividers

Repeat one for a run, or alternate two — ❀✿❀✿❀ — and it reads as a border rather than a list of flowers. Longer arrangements that pair a florette with rules and ornaments are already assembled on the flower patterns page.

Flower Symbols in Documents

❦ and ❧ exist for exactly this: a mark between sections where a horizontal rule would be too heavy. They print in the text colour, so they survive a black-and-white document that an emoji would render as a grey blob.

Flower Symbols Unicode Names and Codes

The Unicode names are more literal than the shapes suggest — ✿ is U+273F Black Florette, ❀ is U+2740 White Florette, ✾ is U+273E Six Petalled Black Florette, ⚘ is U+2698 Flower, ⚜ is U+269C Fleur-de-lis, and ❦ is U+2766 Floral Heart. In Unicode, black means filled and white means outlined; it says nothing about the colour anything renders in.

On Windows, hold Alt and type the decimal value on the numeric keypad: 10047 for ✿, 10048 for ❀, 10049 for ❁, 10046 for ✾, 9880 for ⚘, 9884 for ⚜. On Linux, Ctrl+Shift+U then 273f and Enter gives ✿. On a Mac the numeric method does not exist; open the Character Viewer with Ctrl+Cmd+Space and search for florette. The emoji have no Alt codes at all; a keyboard picker or copying is the only way to those.

Frequently Asked Questions About Flower Symbols

What is the difference between ✿ and ❀?

Fill only. ✿ is the Black Florette and ❀ the White Florette — the same eight-petal shape, one solid and one outlined. Both take your text colour, so "black" and "white" describe the drawing, not what appears on screen.

Which flower symbols are text and which are emoji?

The fourteen text characters are ✿ ❀ ❁ ❃ ✾ ✽ ✼ ⚘ ⚜ ❦ ❧ ⁕ ☘ and 🏵. Everything else on this page is emoji. If a flower changes colour when you paste it, it was an emoji.

Is there a flower symbol for a specific flower like a daisy or a lily?

Only among the emoji, and only for eleven of them. The text florettes are not species — ✿ is not a rose or a daisy, it is a generic bloom shape. There is no lily, no daisy and no orchid character in Unicode at all; ⚜ is a stylised heraldic lily rather than the plant.

How do I type a flower symbol without copying it?

Alt+10047 gives ✿ on Windows with the numeric keypad, and the other florettes follow the same pattern with the codes listed above. There is no flower key on any standard layout, and the emoji cannot be typed numerically at all.

Why does a flower symbol look different on someone else's phone?

Because it is an emoji, and each platform draws its own. 🌸 is a different picture on Apple, Google and Samsung devices. The text florettes do not have this problem — they are rendered by the font, so they stay consistent in a way the emoji cannot.

Are the leaf characters really flower symbols?

No, and it is worth being clear about it. ☘ 🍀 🌱 🌿 🍃 🍂 🍁 🌾 are foliage and grain. They are grouped here because the same decoration usually wants both, not because Unicode files them as flowers.

Related Collections for Flower Symbols

Seven of the florettes here are also star symbols, because Unicode classes them as spoked asterisks — the same characters, filed under shape rather than subject. ❦ and ❧ appear again with the heart symbols, where they belong for the opposite reason. For borders and frames already built from these characters, see flower patterns. Everything else is on the symbol collections index.