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🌀Cyclone Emoji
Generally, the 🌀 emoji means a swirling storm or a feeling of being overwhelmed. People use it to show intensity or a chaotic situation in text.
The 🌀 emoji represents a cyclone, hurricane, or typhoon.
- Unicode
- U+1F300
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :cyclone:
- Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🌀 Cyclone emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
02 — Platforms
Cyclone emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F300 — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your cyclone looks like to the person on the other side.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Cyclone emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :cyclone:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F300.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🌀 Cyclone emoji
No picker to hand? The cyclone can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
05 — Download
Cyclone emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 9. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
06 — Combinations
Cyclone emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around cyclone for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
All combinations →Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with 🌀, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
08 — In conversation
What 🌀 means from a girl or a guy
Who sent the cyclone and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
09 — Apps
What 🌀 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
The character is the same everywhere, but the artwork and the reading of it change from app to app.
11 — History
Where the 🌀 Cyclone emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time — U+1F300 never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
🌀 existed there as
NTT DoCoMo E643, KDDI au E469, SoftBank E443.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Cyclone was approved as U+1F300 and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 🌀 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.
12 — FAQ