Rainbow Emoji 🌈

What 🌈 means

🌈 Meaning: A left-banking rainbow starting from the right, but shown halfway through. The rainbow is designed with bands or thick lines of equal width across an ascending VIBGYOR order.

The 🌈 Rainbow emoji generally signifies hope, joy, and excitement. Also, rainbows have many metaphorical interpretations which can be virtually fulfilled with this emoji. This emoji may also have a close association with the 🏳️‍🌈 Pride Flag or Rainbow Flag, given the similar use of colors.

How and when to use it

• If you're sharing something hopeful and happy on your social media handle; a news post, a picture of yourself, a moment you captured at an event, or just a motivational quote you wrote, you can use 🌈 in all those captions - "It's a beautiful day to do something new! 🌈".
• A rainbow is colorful, and 'colorful' can also be a description for something that's heavy in character. If you're breaking the ice with someone about your 'colorful past' or 'colorful career', you can use 🌈. This adds modesty to a context that's probably shocking.
• You can also use 🌈 while advising someone about life to the extent you're aware, of course - "As far as I know, life is not all rainbows and unicorns, darling 🌈 You gotta get down to it".
• If you're talking to your best friend about someone's ridiculous ventures or incomprehensible career turns, use 🌈. For example, "She's been chasing rainbows for the past three years, now 🌈 I don't understand her anymore".

Other Names

• 🌈 VIBGYOR
• 🌈 Half Rainbow
• 🌈 Arc
• 🌈 Bow
• 🌈 Crescent
• 🌈 Prism
• 🌈 Pride
• 🌈 Colorful Curve
• 🌈 Seven Colors

At a glance

Category

Travel & Places › sky & weather

Codepoints

U+1F308

Emoji version

Emoji 0.6

Shortcodes

:rainbow:

Keywords

gay, genderqueer, glbt, glbtq, lesbian, lgbt, lgbtq, lgbtqia, nature, pride, queer, rain, rainbow, trans, transgender, weather

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