🌸Cherry Blossom Emoji
Generally, the 🌸 emoji means something is beautiful or delicate. People often use it to show appreciation for something lovely, like a flower or a nice gesture.
The 🌸 emoji represents cherry blossoms.
- Unicode
- U+1F338
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :cherry_blossom:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🌸 Cherry Blossom emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
People also look for it as cherry emoji, cherry blossom flower emoji.
Cherry Blossom emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the cherry blossom has been drawn in 4 ways.
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.
Cherry Blossom emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :cherry_blossom:.
In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F338.
How to type the 🌸 Cherry Blossom emoji
No picker to hand? The cherry blossom can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
Cherry Blossom emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the cherry blossom as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Cherry Blossom emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around cherry blossom 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
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
What 🌸 means in other countries
Reads as spring, renewal, and beauty everywhere it's used, with Japan owning the deepest cultural attachment to it.
sakura marks the hanami spring-viewing season and a broader sense of fleeting beauty
used as a soft pink aesthetic marker, often just decorative
pairs with new beginnings — graduations, spring births, fresh starts
Before you send it: Safe as a decorative or seasonal touch in almost any message.
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.
🌸 vs 🌼 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Cherry Blossom
Code: U+1F338 · added 2010
Shortcode: :cherry_blossom:
Generally, the 🌸 emoji means something is beautiful or delicate.
Unicode name: Blossom
Code: U+1F33C · added 2010
Shortcode: :blossom:
Generally, the 🌼 emoji just means ‘daisy flower’.
Where the 🌸 Cherry Blossom 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+1F338 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 E748, KDDI au E4CA, SoftBank E030.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Cherry Blossom was approved as U+1F338 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.