🪷Lotus Emoji
Generally, the lotus emoji means “peace” or “calm. ” People use it to express a feeling of serenity or to wish someone well.
The 🪷 emoji is a lotus flower.
- Unicode
- U+1FAB7
- Released
- 2021
- Shortcode
- :lotus:
- Skin tones
- No
⚠️ Added in Emoji 14.0. On phones older than iOS 16 / Android 13 it arrives as an empty box — the character exists, the artwork does not.
What does the 🪷 Lotus 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 lotus flower emoji.
Lotus emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1FAB7. 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.
Lotus 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 :lotus:.
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+1FAB7.
How to type the 🪷 Lotus emoji
No picker to hand? The lotus can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
Lotus emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the lotus 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
Lotus emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around lotus 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
A genuinely sacred flower in Buddhism and Hinduism, symbolizing purity and enlightenment rather than just decoration.
Represents purity rising from mud and is closely tied to depictions of the Buddha.
Associated with several deities, especially Lakshmi, and used in worship imagery.
Often used loosely for “calm” or wellness, detached from its religious meaning.
Before you send it: Fine for wellness or spa-style messages; know it carries real religious weight in Buddhist and Hindu contexts.
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.
🪷 vs 🧘♀️ — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Lotus
Code: U+1FAB7 · added 2021
Shortcode: :lotus:
Generally, the lotus emoji means “peace” or “calm.
Unicode name: Woman Lotus Position
Code: U+1F9D8 U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F · added 2017
Shortcode: :woman_in_lotus_position:
Generally, it means someone is feeling relaxed, calm, or practicing mindfulness.
Where the 🪷 Lotus emoji came from
When it was approved, which release it landed in, and how long phones have had it.
Same character every time — U+1FAB7 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.
Lotus was approved as U+1FAB7 and shipped in Emoji 14.0 (2021). 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.