Stretched across the sky in every color, arc-shaped and unmistakable, the rainbow emoji has become shorthand for LGBTQ+ pride well beyond its weather roots. It still covers hope after a hard stretch, good luck, and the classic 'better days ahead' message once a literal or figurative storm clears out.
What đ means
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 đ 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 đŗī¸âđ 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 đ in all those captions - "It's a beautiful day to do something new! đ".
- 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 đ. This adds modesty to a context that's probably shocking.
- You can also use đ 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 đ You gotta get down to it".
- If you're talking to your best friend about someone's ridiculous ventures or incomprehensible career turns, use đ. For example, "She's been chasing rainbows for the past three years, now đ I don't understand her anymore".
Other Names
- đ VIBGYOR
- đ Half Rainbow
- đ Arc
- đ Bow
- đ Crescent
- đ Prism
- đ Pride
- đ Colorful Curve
- đ Seven Colors
đ in real conversations
What does đ mean after a storm?
Usually just the weather doing its thing â clearing skies, good news arriving right after something rough, hope showing up on schedule. "It got so bad and then đ" is a common shape for a story that ends better than it started, borrowing the actual phenomenon as the punchline.
What does đ mean on Pride-related posts?
It stands for LGBTQ+ pride and identity, tracing back to the rainbow flag first designed in 1978 as a symbol for the gay rights movement. Plenty of people use đ the same way they'd use the flag emoji itself â in a bio, during Pride Month, or on a post showing support â and it spikes hard every June.
Is đ always about Pride, or sometimes just the weather?
Both, and context is what separates them â a caption about a hike or a storm clearing up is just weather, while a bio, a June post, or anything tagged with pride-related language is almost always the identity meaning. The same symbol carries either reading comfortably, which is part of why it's stayed so popular.
The lowdown
- Category
- Travel & Places âē 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
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.
Pairs well with
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⥠Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first â đ Rainbow or đ§ââī¸ Man Vampire?
Runs with a crowd
đ keeps company in cute emojis and holi emojis and sparkle emojis and st. patrick's day emojis and summer emojis and weather emojis â tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.