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🌸Cherry Blossom Emoji
The cherry blossom emoji 🌸 carries the codepoint U+1F338 and has been in the standard since Unicode 6.0 (2010). It belongs to Animals & Nature → Flowers.
What 🌸 cherry blossom means
Flowers do the work of a card. 💐 and 🌹 go on birthdays, anniversaries and condolences; 🌸 carries a whole spring-and-Japan aesthetic; 🥀 marks heartbreak. Two have picked up political readings: 🌹 in a bio often signals democratic socialism, and 🌻 became shorthand for solidarity with Ukraine, whose national flower it is. 🪷 lotus was added in Emoji 14.0.
Unicode tags this one blossom, cherry and flower and files it under Animals & Nature → Flowers.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F338 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🌸 | |
| HTML decimal | 🌸 | |
| CSS | \1F338 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F338} | |
| Python | \U0001F338 | |
| Java / C# | \uD83C\uDF38 | |
| Rust | \u{1f338} | |
| Swift | \u{1F338} | |
| PHP | \u{1F338} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%8C%B8 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 8C B8 | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83C DF38 | |
| Base64 | 8J+MuA== | |
| Decimal | 127800 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 6.0 (2010) | |
Keywords
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How to type 🌸
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “cherry blossom”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “blossom”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f338and Enter. - HTML — paste
🌸.
How 🌸 renders
The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.
- 🌸Apple
- 🌸Segoe
- 🌸Noto
- 🌸System
Frequently asked questions
What does the 🌸 cherry blossom emoji mean?+
🌸 is the cherry blossom emoji, tagged blossom, cherry and flower. Flowers do the work of a card. 💐 and 🌹 go on birthdays, anniversaries and condolences; 🌸 carries a whole spring-and-Japan aesthetic; 🥀 marks heartbreak. Two have picked up political readings: 🌹 in a bio often signals democratic socialism, and 🌻 became shorthand for solidarity with Ukraine, whose national flower it is. 🪷 lotus was added in Emoji 14.0.
What is the Unicode code for 🌸?+
cherry blossom is U+1F338. In HTML that is 🌸, in CSS \1F338, and in JavaScript \u{1F338}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🌸 emoji added?+
cherry blossom got its emoji presentation in Unicode 6.0 (2010). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.
Related emojis
More emojis from Flowers in Animals & Nature.
Added in Unicode 6.0 (2010)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🌸 cherry blossom.