Flower Symbol ✿: Text Flowers, Flower Emojis and Their Meanings

Flower text symbol or flower emoji?

The flower text symbol set (✿ ❀ ❁ ✾ ❃ ❋ ✽ ⚘ ❦) comes from the old Dingbats block of Unicode. These characters follow your font colour and size, so they look tidy in Word files, school projects and plain-text places like some game names. Many of them, such as ❃ and ✤, are officially named as asterisks but look like flowers, which is why decorators love them.

Flower emojis (🌸 🌺 🌻 🌹 🌷 🪷 💐 🌼) are always coloured. They work best in chats and social media captions. The lotus emoji 🪷 is newer, so an old phone may show an empty box for it.

Flower meanings: rose, lotus, sunflower and more

Flowers carry meanings that people have shared for a long time. These are customs and traditions, not strict rules:

The rose symbol is the most common choice for a love message, and you can pair it with ♡ from our heart symbols page.

Flower emoji meaning: wilted rose, white flower, bouquet and sunflower emoji

Flower emojis are a quick way to show a feeling. Their meanings are informal, but these are how many people use them:

The cherry blossom emoji meaning comes from Japan, where sakura blooms briefly each spring, so 🌸 often stands for a fresh start and beauty that does not last. The meaning of sunflower emoji 🌻 is cheerful: the sunflower emoji turns up in "Good morning 🌻" messages and positive bios.

For a flower emoji copy and paste, tap 🌸, 🌻, 🌹, 💐 or 🪷 in the grid above; lotus emoji copy and paste works the same way. 🥀 and 💮 are on every phone's emoji keyboard: search "wilted" or "white flower". See more on the aesthetic emoji page and the emoji hub.

Lotus symbol: why the lotus matters in India

The lotus is the national flower of India, which is why the lotus symbol appears so often in Indian art, temple carvings and rangoli. You can read about the other emblems on our national symbols of India page.

So, the lotus is a symbol of what? It grows in muddy water but blooms clean and bright, so it stands for purity and staying good in a hard place. In Hindu tradition the lotus flower symbol is linked with deities like Lakshmi and Saraswati, who are shown seated on a lotus. In Buddhist art the symbol of lotus stands for awakening. These are religious beliefs and are shared here respectfully; see religious symbols for more.

Flower symbol text for names and bios

Text flowers make a name look gentle and neat. Some patterns to copy:

• ✿ Ananya ✿
• ❀ ˗ˏˋ Priya ˎˊ˗ ❀
• 🌸 dreamer | doodler 🌸
• ❁ good vibes only ❁
• ❦ Happy Birthday Maa ❦

For an aesthetic flower symbol look, keep to one or two flowers, not a whole row. Flowers also pair nicely with a 🦋 from the butterfly symbol page or a ☾ from moon symbols.

Actinomorphic flower symbol and the flower of life

Biology students meet flower symbols in floral formulas. In these, ⊕ is used for an actinomorphic flower (one that can be cut into equal halves along many lines, like a mustard flower), and % is used for a zygomorphic flower (only one line of symmetry, like a pea flower). The male and female signs ♂ and ♀ from our gender symbols page are also used in these formulas.

The flower of life symbol is a different idea. It is a geometric pattern of overlapping circles that forms petal shapes. It is popular in mandala art and wall designs. There is no single Unicode character for it, so use an image instead.

How to type a flower symbol

No flower here has a Windows Alt code or a Mac Option key shortcut. Use one of these instead:

1. Copy and paste: tap a flower in the grid above.
2. Word: type the code and press Alt+X. Example: 273F gives ✿, 2740 gives ❀, 1FAB7 gives 🪷.
3. Word menu: Insert > Symbol > More Symbols, choose the Segoe UI Symbol font and look in the Dingbats area.
4. Windows emoji panel: Windows+. and search "flower" or "rose".
5. Mac: Control+Command+Space and search "florette" or "lotus".
6. Phones: the emoji keyboard has 🌹 🌻 🌸 under the nature section. Text flowers like ✿ are not on phone keyboards, so copy them from here.

More decorations are on the cool symbols hub.