🌻Sunflower Emoji
Generally, the sunflower emoji means happiness and positivity. It's a simple way to show someone you’re thinking of them and wishing them well.
The sunflower emoji (🌻) represents a beautiful flower that follows the sun.
- Unicode
- U+1F33B
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :sunflower:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🌻 Sunflower emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 4.
Sunflower emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F33B — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your sunflower looks like to the person on the other side.
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.
Sunflower emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :sunflower:.
In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F33B.
How to type the 🌻 Sunflower emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
Sunflower emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the sunflower 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
Sunflower emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around sunflower 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 sunflower and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
What 🌻 means in other countries
A cheerful summer flower generally, but since 2022 it’s also become a widely recognized symbol of Ukraine and resistance.
Ukraine’s national flower, adopted internationally as a symbol of support since the 2022 invasion.
Otherwise just reads as warmth, positivity and summer, with no political weight implied.
Before you send it: Fine for everyday cheerfulness; in a news or political context it will likely read as support for Ukraine.
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.
Where the 🌻 Sunflower 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+1F33B 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
KDDI au E4E3, SoftBank E305.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Sunflower was approved as U+1F33B 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.