🥀Wilted Flower Emoji
Generally, it means something is dying, sad, or fading. It’s often used to convey a feeling of loss or disappointment.
The 🥀 emoji is a wilted flower.
- Unicode
- U+1F940
- Released
- 2016
- Shortcode
- :wilted_flower:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🥀 Wilted Flower 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 dying flower emoji.
Wilted Flower emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F940. 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.
Wilted Flower 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 :wilted_flower:.
In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F940.
How to type the 🥀 Wilted Flower emoji
No picker to hand? The wilted flower can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
Wilted Flower emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 9. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Wilted Flower emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around wilted flower 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 consistently as heartbreak, disappointment or self-deprecating sadness, often used humorously rather than gravely.
Common punchline for a bad day, a rejection, or ironic “tragic main character” humor.
Can genuinely signal low mood, so tone in the surrounding message matters.
Before you send it: Great for a joking “well, that happened” moment; check in for real if it shows up with no punchline attached.
What 🥀 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the wilted flower 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: Wilted Flower
Code: U+1F940 · added 2016
Shortcode: :wilted_flower:
Generally, it means something is dying, sad, or fading.
Unicode name: White Flower
Code: U+1F4AE · added 2010
Shortcode: :white_flower:
Generally, the 💮 emoji means “good job” or “well done.
Where the 🥀 Wilted Flower emoji came from
It arrived with the 3.0 release of the standard, which dates the wilted flower to 2016.
Same character every time — U+1F940 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.
Wilted Flower was approved as U+1F940 and shipped in Emoji 3.0 (2016). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
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.