🌿Herb Emoji
Generally, 🌿 means "herb" or "plant. " It’s often used to indicate something natural or healthy.
The 🌿 emoji is a sprig of herbs.
- Unicode
- U+1F33F
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :herb:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🌿 Herb emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 2 of them.
Herb emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the herb as 9 vendors ship it.
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.
Herb 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 :herb:.
In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F33F.
How to type the 🌿 Herb emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F33F when there is no key at all.
Herb emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the herb 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
Herb emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around herb 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
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
What 🌿 means in other countries
Reads as a plain sprig of greenery to most, but doubles as coded shorthand for cannabis in casual and Rastafarian use.
“The herb” refers to cannabis as a sacrament, a genuinely religious rather than casual use.
Common stand-in for weed, alongside the leaf emoji, since there’s no dedicated cannabis emoji.
Before you send it: Fine for cooking or gardening posts; in party or lifestyle captions it often reads as a drug reference.
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 🌿 Herb 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+1F33F 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 E741, KDDI au EB82.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Herb was approved as U+1F33F 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.