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White Flower Emoji 💮

This is a hanamaru, the flower-shaped stamp Japanese teachers draw on top marks, not a generic bloom and not the đŸĩī¸ Rosette people often mix it up with. Outside Japan it's turned into an all-purpose congratulations, dropped on a good grade, a finished project, anything worth a gold star.

What 💮 means

An open white flower with a pink or reddish outline throughout the design of the flower. This character has five curves that have a couple of Japanese characters written within it, while the entire floral structure is further embedded with petal structures beneath.

The 💮 White Flower emoji is a circular flower, commonly known as a 'rosette'. It signifies love, happiness, and gratitude to an extent. The Japanese characters here seem to translate to 'Very Well Done', which is a mark or a stamp generally used by teachers.

How and when to use it

  • If you're far away from home and/or your significant other, you can use 💮 while texting them on special occasions such as anniversaries, birthdays, Mother's Day, Father's Day, and even Valentine's Day (back it up with calls too).
  • If you're posting social media pictures or videos of your shoes, clothes, or even home decor items that you covered in floral prints, you can use 💮 in those captions.
  • 💮 can also be used in captions for fashion posts, especially if the clothing in the post has floral prints or its a combination of pink/red and white.
  • If you understand the idea behind 💮 and the characters, or you just find the emoji pretty, you can use it in your social media profile name.
  • Since 💮 is a rosette, it can be used in the post captions for any rosette picture!

Other Names

  • 💮 Rosette
  • 💮 Japanese Rosette
  • 💮 Floral Print
  • 💮 Very Well Done Stamp
  • 💮 White Flower With Pink/Red Outline

💮 in real conversations

What does 💮 actually mean — it doesn't look like a real flower?

It isn't one — 💮 is the hanamaru (花丸), a swirl-inside-petals stamp Japanese teachers draw on homework and tests for a job well done, roughly the local equivalent of a gold star. Unicode's own name for it is just 'white flower,' but the swirl-and-petals design is the stamp, not a bloom. Outside Japan it mostly gets repurposed as a generic pretty-flower icon.

Why does 💮 show up as a perfect-score or 'nailed it' emoji?

It's literally the local grading stamp — a hanamaru next to a grade means top marks, no corrections needed, closer to a report-card sticker than anything botanical. English speakers who stumble on 💮 in a keyboard's flower row without that context usually just guess it means something like 'pretty' or 'fresh,' which is a fair miss.

Does anyone actually use 💮 as a literal flower?

Rarely, and honestly it barely works as one — the ring-of-petals design reads as a stamp shape rather than an actual bloom, nothing like the shading on 🌸 or đŸŒŧ. Reach for 🌸 or đŸŒŧ if you want a flower emoji that reads as a flower; save 💮 for congratulating someone on getting something exactly right.

The lowdown

Category
Animals & Nature â€ē plant-flower
Codepoints
U+1F4AE
Emoji version
Emoji 0.6
Shortcodes
:white_flower:
Keywords
flower, white

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.

white flower on Apple
Apple
white flower on Google
Google
white flower on Twitter/X
Twitter/X
white flower on Facebook
Facebook
white flower on Microsoft
Microsoft

⚡ Quick round

Which joined the keyboard first — 💮 White Flower or đŸ§—â€â™‚ī¸ Man Climbing?

Runs with a crowd

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

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