What does 🥀 Wilted Flower mean?
A red rose drooping on its stem, with a petal falling away. Where 🌹 says love, this one says love lost: heartbreak, disappointment, grief or something slowly fading. It is a favourite in emo and grunge aesthetics and in sad song lyrics posted late at night. People also use it with dramatic irony to say they are dying of embarrassment or wilting in the summer heat.
🥀 Wilted Flower is an emoji from the Animals & Nature category (flowers), added in Emoji 3.0 in 2016. People use it in messages about dying, rose and sad.
Example messages
🥀 Wilted Flower on Apple, Google, Microsoft & more
The code is the same everywhere, but every company draws its own artwork. This is how Wilted Flower looks on each platform.
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Wilted Flower emoji: questions & answers
How do I copy and paste the Wilted Flower emoji?
Press the Copy button at the top of this page and 🥀 is copied to your clipboard. Then paste it anywhere with Ctrl+V, Cmd+V or a long press on your phone. In Slack, Discord and GitHub you can also type the shortcode :wilted_flower:.
When was the Wilted Flower emoji added?
🥀 Wilted Flower was added in Emoji 3.0, released in 2016. It is supported on all current versions of iOS, Android, Windows and macOS.
Why does 🥀 look different on my phone?
Every platform draws its own artwork for Wilted Flower. The underlying code (U+1F940) is the same everywhere, so the person you send it to always gets the same emoji, just in their device’s style. Compare the designs in the platform section above.