wilted flower Emoji

The wilted flower emoji represents an animal, plant, or natural phenomenon, commonly used literally (talking about the actual animal or plant) or figuratively as a personality/mood reference (many animals carry informal symbolic associations in casual conversation).

Category context: The Animals & Nature category spans wildlife, pets, insects, marine life, plants, and weather — among the most globally recognizable and culturally neutral emoji, since animals and nature are common reference points across languages.

Cataloged under Plant Flower within the Animals & Nature category, wilted flower is the 141st of 160 emoji How To Type Any Symbol lists in this category, and was introduced in Emoji version 3 of the Unicode Emoji Standard. Technically, it is represented by a single Unicode code point rather than a combined sequence, making it one of the simpler emoji to encode and display reliably across platforms. Its Unicode code point sequence is U+1F940.

💡 Good to know: Animal emoji are frequently used figuratively rather than literally — for example, associating a person's behavior with a particular animal's stereotype in casual conversation.