Animals & Nature · Emoji 0.6
🍃Leaf Fluttering in Wind Emoji
Generally, the 🍃 emoji means a peaceful or natural feeling. People use it to express calmness or to reference something related to nature, like a beautiful outdoor scene.
The 🍃 emoji represents a single leaf, often depicted fluttering in the wind.
- Unicode
- U+1F343
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :leaves:
- Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🍃 Leaf Fluttering in Wind emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 5 of them.
People also look for it as wind emoji, blow emoji.
02 — Platforms
Leaf Fluttering in Wind emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the leaf fluttering in wind has been drawn in 3 ways.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Leaf Fluttering in Wind 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 :leaves:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Escapes for the languages people actually paste this into. Every one of them produces the same character, and that character is U+1F343.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🍃 Leaf Fluttering in Wind emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F343 when there is no key at all.
05 — Download
Leaf Fluttering in Wind emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the leaf fluttering in wind as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
WhatsApp
06 — Combinations
Leaf Fluttering in Wind emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around leaf fluttering in wind 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
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
09 — Around the world
What 🍃 means in other countries
Mostly just wind and lightness, but on social media it often stands in for smoke, doubling as cannabis shorthand.
Literal reading — a breeze, freshness, or something drifting or disappearing quickly.
Frequently paired with smoke or “chill” captions as an unofficial weed reference.
Before you send it: Fine for describing wind or a light mood; know it can read as a drug wink in party-adjacent captions.
10 — Apps
What 🍃 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F343, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
11 — Related
Emojis similar to the Leaf Fluttering in Wind emoji
Same family (plant-other) — often confused with leaf fluttering in wind or used alongside it.
Animals & Nature →
Leafless Tree
🐶Dog Face
Collections 🍃 belongs to — every one of them is a different way people go looking for it:
12 — Difference
🍃 vs 🍀 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Leaf Fluttering in Wind
Code: U+1F343 · added 2010
Shortcode: :leaves:
Generally, the 🍃 emoji means a peaceful or natural feeling.
Unicode name: Four Leaf Clover
Code: U+1F340 · added 2010
Shortcode: :four_leaf_clover:
Generally, it means “good luck.”
13 — History
Where the 🍃 Leaf Fluttering in Wind 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+1F343 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 E5CD, SoftBank E447.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Leaf Fluttering in Wind was approved as U+1F343 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.
14 — FAQ