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🌱Seedling Emoji
The seedling emoji 🌱 carries the codepoint U+1F331 and has been in the standard since Unicode 6.0 (2010). It belongs to Animals & Nature → Other Plants.
What 🌱 seedling 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 plant, sapling and sprout 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+1F331 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🌱 | |
| HTML decimal | 🌱 | |
| CSS | \1F331 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F331} | |
| Python | \U0001F331 | |
| Java / C# | \uD83C\uDF31 | |
| Rust | \u{1f331} | |
| Swift | \u{1F331} | |
| PHP | \u{1F331} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%8C%B1 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 8C B1 | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83C DF31 | |
| Base64 | 8J+MsQ== | |
| Decimal | 127793 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 6.0 (2010) | |
Keywords
- plant
- sapling
- sprout
- young
Appears in these collections
How to type 🌱
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “seedling”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “plant”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f331and 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 🌱 seedling emoji mean?+
🌱 is the seedling emoji, tagged plant, sapling and sprout. 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 🌱?+
seedling is U+1F331. In HTML that is 🌱, in CSS \1F331, and in JavaScript \u{1F331}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🌱 emoji added?+
seedling 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 Other Plants in Animals & Nature.
Added in Unicode 6.0 (2010)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🌱 seedling.