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Tulip Emoji 🌷

A single tulip, closed-cup and upright on its stem, this emoji is spring in flower form. It's associated with the Netherlands and its famous tulip fields, used for gardens, Mother's Day, and gentler, everyday affection — a step down from a rose but still clearly a gesture of love.

What 🌷 means

A closed bulb-like pink flower with a few opened petals and a green stem with two long green leaves rising towards the flower. The 🌷 Tulip emoji signifies symmetry, perenniality, springtime, love, affection, and even charity.

How and when to use it

  • If you're a flower delivery store or a flower-based Instagram page, or anything of this sort, you can use 🌷 in your social media profile name or even in your bio.
  • Since tulips signify charity, you can use 🌷 while posting or reposting charity-related information. It can be an appreciative post or even a 'please share' post, where you're doing your bit in creating awareness about that particular post.
  • If you're sharing pictures of a tulip garden, bouquets, or pink floral prints, you can use 🌷 in those post captions.
  • Apart from the first point, you can also use 🌷 in your social media profile name if you just, plainly love tulips, or you love this emoji.
  • 🌷 can also be used in textual wishes for special days, such as anniversaries, Valentine's Day, or just another beautiful day to be alive.

Other Names

  • 🌷 Darwin Tulip
  • 🌷 Lady Tulip
  • 🌷 Tulipa Humilis
  • 🌷 Lady Jane
  • 🌷 Pink Flower
  • 🌷 Pink Tulip
  • 🌷 Dwarf Tulip
  • 🌷 Candlestick Tulip

🌷 in real conversations

What does 🌷 mean in texting, romantically or otherwise?

A gentler kind of romance than 🌹 — in the Victorian language of flowers, tulips stood for perfect, complete love rather than the burning passion a rose implies, and that softer register carries into how 🌷 gets used today: sweet, sincere, a little less intense. It works well for a new relationship that isn't ready for a rose yet.

Why is 🌷 so tied to the Netherlands?

Tulip fields are practically a national image there — the Netherlands still exports more cut tulips than anywhere on earth, and 'tulip mania' in the 1630s, when bulb prices briefly spiked to absurd levels before collapsing, is still cited as one of history's first speculative bubbles. 🌷 gets pulled into travel posts about Amsterdam and Keukenhof for exactly that reason.

What does it mean if someone sends just 🌷 with no message?

Usually a small, sincere gesture rather than a bold move — thinking of you, happy spring, or a quiet thank-you. It reads warmer than a thumbs-up but far less loaded than a rose, which makes it a safe pick when someone wants to say something nice without it being read as a declaration.

The lowdown

Category
Animals & Nature â€ē plant-flower
Codepoints
U+1F337
Emoji version
Emoji 0.6
Shortcodes
:tulip:
Keywords
blossom, flower, growth, plant, tulip

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.

tulip on Apple
Apple
tulip on Google
Google
tulip on Twitter/X
Twitter/X
tulip on Facebook
Facebook
tulip on Microsoft
Microsoft

⚡ Quick round

Which joined the keyboard first — 🌷 Tulip or đŸ¤Ŧ Face with Symbols on Mouth?

Runs with a crowd

🌷 keeps company in aesthetic emojis and easter emojis and flower emojis and pink emojis — tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.

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