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☘️Shamrock Emoji
Unicode added ☘️ shamrock in Emoji 1.0 (2015), filed under Animals & Nature → Other Plants. Its codepoint is U+2618 U+FE0F, and it is tagged irish, plant.
What ☘️ shamrock 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 irish, plant and files it under Animals & Nature → Other Plants.
Copy variants
shamrock carries a variation selector (U+FE0F) that forces colour rendering. Drop it and the same character renders as monochrome text.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
How ☘️ is built
This emoji is more than one codepoint. Each part below is a character in its own right.
- ☘U+2618shamrock
- ·U+FE0FVariation selector (emoji style)
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+2618 U+FE0F | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | ☘️ | |
| HTML decimal | ☘️ | |
| CSS | \2618\FE0F | |
| JavaScript | \u{2618}\u{FE0F} | |
| Python | \U00002618\U0000FE0F | |
| Java / C# | \u2618\uFE0F | |
| Rust | \u{2618}\u{fe0f} | |
| Swift | \u{2618}\u{FE0F} | |
| PHP | \u{2618}\u{FE0F} | |
| URL encoded | %E2%98%98%EF%B8%8F | |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 98 98 EF B8 8F | |
| UTF-16 bytes | 2618 FE0F | |
| Base64 | 4piY77iP | |
| Decimal | 9752 65039 | |
| Introduced | Emoji 1.0 (2015) | |
Keywords
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How to type ☘️
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “shamrock”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “irish”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type2618and 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 ☘️ shamrock emoji mean?+
☘️ is the shamrock emoji, tagged irish, plant. 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 ☘️?+
shamrock is U+2618 U+FE0F. In HTML that is ☘️, in CSS \2618\FE0F, and in JavaScript \u{2618}\u{FE0F}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the ☘️ emoji added?+
shamrock got its emoji presentation in Emoji 1.0 (2015). 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 1.0 (2015)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as ☘️ shamrock.