U+1F338 "🌸" Cherry Blossom Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🌸
U+1F338 "🌸" Cherry Blossom is a graphical symbol representing the delicate pink flower of the cherry tree, deeply associated with Japanese culture and the fleeting beauty of spring. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard allows it to be used across digital platforms as a pictogram for nature, renewal, and transience, often evoking hanami, the traditional custom of enjoying blooming cherry blossoms. This character is widely employed in social media, messaging, and design to convey gentleness, romance, or seasonal change, and it forms part of the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block, cementing its role as a globally recognized emblem of beauty and impermanence.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F338 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Cherry Blossom |
| Block | Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 🌸 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 🌸 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9F 0x8C 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83C 0xDF38 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F338 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83c\udf38 |