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Cherry Blossom Emoji 🌸

Pale pink petals in a five-point cluster, the cherry-blossom emoji depicts sakura, Japan's iconic spring flower. It's used for spring itself, for Japanese culture and hanami viewing parties, and for the flower's built-in symbolism — beauty that's stunning precisely because it doesn't last long.

What 🌸 means

A single pink flower with five big petals that are light in shade at the top and darker towards the center. The flower has a yellow center that has a couple of black stamens emerging from it.

The 🌸 Cherry Blossom emoji signifies springtime. It suggests new life, renewal, hope, balance, and the circle of life. Many times, the cherry blossom reminds us of our own lives, its fragility, and transience.

How and when to use it

If you're wishing someone good health, happiness, joy, or even congratulations on a new phase in their life, you can use 🌸 in such messages.
🌸 is a very pretty emoji. You can use it in your social media profile if you love cherry blossoms, or if you just find this emoji really cute.
If you're posting anything related to the cherry blossom; be it a motivational/inspirational post, a photography post, a sketch, etc, you can use 🌸 in those post captions.
Not limited only to cherry blossoms, 🌸 can also be used in post captions while sharing floral pictures or prints in general (make sure there's a tint of pink in those posts, though).
If you're expressing gratitude via text, use 🌸. This emoji adds a sense of peace, calm, and genuineness to your message.
You can also use 🌸 while sharing springtime pictures, irrespective of whether there are cherry blossoms in your locality or not.

Other Names

🌸 Pink Flower
🌸 Prunus
🌸 Sakura
🌸 Japanese Cherry
🌸 Prunus Serrulata

🌸 in real conversations

What does 🌸 mean from a girl?

Soft, delicate, a little sentimental — used for anything gentle or pretty, from an outfit to a compliment to a general mood. It's a favorite for aesthetic captions precisely because the flower itself reads as fragile and fleeting rather than bold.

What does 🌸 mean in Japan?

It's sakura, the cherry blossom that blankets Japan every spring and gets celebrated with hanami, flower-viewing picnics held under the trees. The blooms last barely two weeks, which is exactly why they're tied to ideas of beauty that doesn't stick around.

What does 🌸 mean in texting generally?

Spring, blooming, or a soft, feminine aesthetic — new beginnings, growth, a gentle mood board. It shows up constantly in "soft girl" style captions and bios, standing in for delicate and pretty without ever having to spell either word out directly.

The lowdown

Category: Animals & Nature › plant-flower
Codepoints: U+1F338
Emoji version: Emoji 0.6
Shortcodes: :cherry_blossom:
Keywords: blossom, cherry, flower, plant, spring, springtime

How it looks across platforms

Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.