🥀 Wilted Rose Emoji — Meaning & Copy
Wilted Flower · Unicode U+1F940 · page updated November 04, 2026
What the wilted rose emoji means
The 🥀 emoji - officially Wilted Flower, universally called the wilted rose - is a drooping red blossom on a bent green stem, and it is the emoji language's single most eloquent symbol for something beautiful that did not survive. Joined Unicode in 2016 (Emoji 3.0). Its range is remarkably wide for one drawing: ended relationships, dead group chats, abandoned plans, teams that lost, plants that actually died, and the specific melancholy of watching something you tended quietly fail. It does melancholy with dignity - unlike 💔 which is violent, 🥀 is gradual, and that softness is why it dominates sad-girl and dark-academia aesthetics across social platforms.
When people use it — three real scenarios
Mark an ending without drama
The signature use: quote the thing that ended, add 🥀, and the droop does the talking - no essay required.
Aesthetic and mood captions
In poetry posts, photo dumps and playlist covers it signals tender melancholy as a visual style.
Literal plant neglect
The deadpan use: actual gardening guilt, which the emoji covers with zero irony.
Combinations that read like a sentence
Emoji stack into phrases. These pairs (and the full strings you can copy from each row) are the combinations real conversations settled on:
How it renders on different platforms
The wilt is drawn consistently - red petals folded down, stem bent - though Apple's rose is fuller and some Android skins draw a more generic flower. What matters for meaning is that no platform renders it fresh: the droop is the message, everywhere. Distinguish it from 🌹 (Rose, U+1F339), which is upright and means romance or appreciation - sending 🥀 where 🌹 was intended flips the sentiment entirely, a classic copy-paste accident worth checking before sending. In floral industries and event planning contexts it reads literally (a wilted arrangement), so the emoji is safe in both readings.
Copy it anywhere in three steps
On this page, tap the big button under the emoji and it is in your clipboard. In any message app, long-press the text field and choose Paste. On desktop, Ctrl/Cmd+V pastes it wherever a cursor blinks - chat, document, bio field, spreadsheet. The emoji travels as a text character, so it adopts the recipient's platform style automatically: send from an iPhone to a Android phone and the Android user sees Android's drawing. Nothing to install, no sticker packs, no image files.
Related pages
💯 100 emoji 📋 Copy-paste table 📖 All meanings
Frequently asked questions
What does 🥀 mean from a girl?
Usually quiet sadness about an ending - a relationship, a friendship, a phase. It signals the feeling is real but not yelling. The respectful reply is gentle concern, not problem-solving.
Is 🥀 the same as 🌹?
No - 🌹 is upright and romantic; 🥀 is drooped and mournful. They are opposite sentiments, which is why mixing them up by copy-paste matters.
How do I copy the wilted rose emoji on a phone?
Tap the big copy button at the top of this page, or tap the emoji itself in any grid here - it lands in your clipboard instantly, ready to paste into any message, bio or document.
What is the Unicode for wilted rose emoji?
Wilted Flower is U+1F940 in Unicode. Copying copies the character itself - no image, no sticker - so it renders in the recipient's own font.