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Maple Leaf Emoji 🍁

A red maple leaf, five-pointed and unmistakable, this emoji is Canada's flag made botanical — it stands in for the country the way a flag would. It also covers autumn more generally, fall foliage, and the maple syrup Canada is famous for.

What 🍁 means

A reddish-orange leaf with five pointy ends that are shaded with red on the top and follow with an orange gradience towards the bottom where there's also a tiny brown stalk.

Since the Canadian flag has a maple leaf in it, the 🍁 Maple Leaf emoji can refer to the country and its culture. Apart from that, it can also signify the fall season, leaves changing color, shedding, and achieving maturity.

How and when to use it

If you love autumn and you're posting a social media post, story, or status about how excited you are for fall, you can use 🍁 in such contexts.
Once autumn's here, ensure you use 🍁 in post captions while sharing those gorgeous pictures from your locality. You can also do this while reposting someone else's photography or videos.
Since 🍁 is closely related to Canada, you can use this emoji while posting anything Canadian. For instance, if you're off for a vacation to the country, you can use this emoji in such contexts, like "My Canadian Visa is excited just as much as I am! 🍁".
Are you posting or reposting some fashion for the upcoming fall season? Then, you ought to use 🍁 in those captions to convey to your readers the essence of the post(s).
If you love autumn or you love Canada or you love the maple leaf or you love all of it, then you can use 🍁 in your social media profile name.
If you're sharing the perfect recipe for a sweet tooth, you can use 🍁 next to the 'Maple Syrup' ingredient to animate your recipe and make it more visually catchy.

Other Names

🍁 Maple Leaves
🍁 Maple Syrup
🍁 Canada
🍁 Canadian Flag
🍁 Autumn Leaves
🍁 Maple
🍁 Coloured Leaf
🍁 Autumn

🍁 in real conversations

What does 🍁 mean — is it about fall or about Canada?

Both, genuinely, and context decides which — a red maple leaf sits at the center of Canada's flag, adopted in 1965 after the maple had already been an unofficial national symbol since the 1800s, so 🍁 reads as 'Canadian' in bios, sports posts, and travel captions. In a September photo of changing leaves, though, it's simply autumn.

Why did Canada pick a maple leaf for its flag specifically?

Generations of Canadians had already adopted it informally, and it became the country's most recognized emblem after Canadian soldiers wore a maple-leaf cap badge in World War I. When the flag was redesigned in 1965, a single stylized red leaf won out over earlier designs because it read as unmistakably Canadian at a glance, from any distance.

What does 🍁 mean in a caption that has nothing to do with Canada?

Straightforward fall imagery — cooler weather, changing colors, sweater season, apple orchards, all the things people associate with autumn regardless of nationality. 🍁 works as a seasonal marker on its own, the same way a snowflake means winter, no Canadian context required for it to make sense.

The lowdown

Category: Animals & Nature › plant-other
Codepoints: U+1F341
Emoji version: Emoji 0.6
Shortcodes: :maple_leaf:
Keywords: falling, leaf, maple

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.