🌱Seedling Emoji
Generally, it means someone is wishing you growth, new beginnings, or good luck with something you’re starting. It’s often used to show support and encouragement.
The 🌱 emoji is a little green seedling.
- Unicode
- U+1F331
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :seedling:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🌱 Seedling emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 4 of them.
People also look for it as sprout emoji.
Seedling emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F331. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 9.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Facebook, Messenger
Open-source, design systems
Galaxy, One UI
Windows, Teams, Fluent
WhatsApp on Android
Slack, Discord themes
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Seedling emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :seedling:.
In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the seedling, code point U+1F331.
How to type the 🌱 Seedling emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
Seedling 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.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Seedling emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around seedling for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
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.
What 🌱 means from a girl or a guy
Who sent the seedling and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
What 🌱 means in other countries
New beginnings almost everywhere, with an extra layer as an eco-conscious or vegan-lifestyle marker online.
Marks a fresh start — new job, new habit, new project, no matter the culture.
Sometimes signals plant-based eating or environmental values, similar to a green heart.
Before you send it: Send it for growth or beginnings in any context; the eco connotation only fits if the rest of the message leans that way.
What 🌱 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F331, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
Where the 🌱 Seedling 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+1F331 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 E746, KDDI au EB7D.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Seedling was approved as U+1F331 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.