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🪹Empty Nest Emoji
🪹 empty nest is encoded at U+1FAB9 and shipped with Emoji 14.0 (2021). Unicode files it under Animals & Nature → Other Plants, alongside 16 related emojis.
What 🪹 empty nest means
Leaves, trees and green things, used mostly as mood. 🌱 covers plant-based eating and personal growth in equal measure, 🍀 and ☘️ mean luck and St Patrick's Day, 🍁 does autumn and Canada, and 🌿 quietly stands in for weed. 🪹 and 🪺 arrived in Emoji 14.0; leafless tree is an Emoji 16.0 addition.
Unicode tags this one branch, empty and home and files it under Animals & Nature → Other Plants.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1FAB9 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🪹 | |
| HTML decimal | 🪹 | |
| CSS | \1FAB9 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1FAB9} | |
| Python | \U0001FAB9 | |
| Java / C# | \uD83E\uDEB9 | |
| Rust | \u{1fab9} | |
| Swift | \u{1FAB9} | |
| PHP | \u{1FAB9} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%AA%B9 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F AA B9 | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83E DEB9 | |
| Base64 | 8J+quQ== | |
| Decimal | 129721 | |
| Introduced | Emoji 14.0 (2021) | |
Keywords
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How to type 🪹
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “empty nest”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “branch”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1fab9and 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 🪹 empty nest emoji mean?+
🪹 is the empty nest emoji, tagged branch, empty and home. Leaves, trees and green things, used mostly as mood. 🌱 covers plant-based eating and personal growth in equal measure, 🍀 and ☘️ mean luck and St Patrick's Day, 🍁 does autumn and Canada, and 🌿 quietly stands in for weed. 🪹 and 🪺 arrived in Emoji 14.0; leafless tree is an Emoji 16.0 addition.
What is the Unicode code for 🪹?+
empty nest is U+1FAB9. In HTML that is 🪹, in CSS \1FAB9, and in JavaScript \u{1FAB9}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🪹 emoji added?+
empty nest got its emoji presentation in Emoji 14.0 (2021). 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 Other Plants in Animals & Nature.
Added in Emoji 14.0 (2021)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🪹 empty nest.