🎴Flower Playing Cards Emoji
Usually, the 🎴 emoji just represents the Hanafuda deck itself. People use it to talk about the game or the cards.
The 🎴 emoji represents a Hanafuda playing card deck.
- Unicode
- U+1F3B4
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :flower_playing_cards:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🎴 Flower Playing Cards emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 6 of them.
Flower Playing Cards emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F3B4. 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.
Flower Playing Cards emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :flower_playing_cards:.
In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F3B4.
How to type the 🎴 Flower Playing Cards emoji
No picker to hand? The flower playing cards can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
Flower Playing Cards emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the flower playing cards 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
Flower Playing Cards emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around flower playing cards 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 on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the flower playing cards lands changes how it is taken.
🎴 vs 🥀 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Flower Playing Cards
Code: U+1F3B4 · added 2010
Shortcode: :flower_playing_cards:
Usually, the 🎴 emoji just represents the Hanafuda deck itself.
Unicode name: Wilted Flower
Code: U+1F940 · added 2016
Shortcode: :wilted_flower:
Generally, it means something is dying, sad, or fading.
Where the 🎴 Flower Playing Cards 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+1F3B4 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 EB6E.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Flower Playing Cards was approved as U+1F3B4 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.