U+1F940 "🥀" Wilted Flower Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🥀
U+1F940 "🥀" Wilted Flower is a digital symbol that depicts a flower with drooping petals and a bent stem, visually conveying decay, sadness, or the end of a romantic relationship. Often used in text messages and social media to express heartbreak, disappointment, or a sense of loss, it serves as a poignant contrast to more vibrant flower emojis representing love or growth. Its inclusion in Unicode 9.0 in 2016 expanded the palette of emotional expression, allowing users to communicate subtle feelings of melancholy or withering hope through a simple graphic.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F940 |
| Version Added | 9.0 |
| Name | Wilted Flower |
| Block | Supplemental 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 0xA5 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83E 0xDD40 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F940 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83e\udd40 |