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Wilted Flower Emoji
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Emoji Overview
Unicode Code Point | U+1F940 1F940 |
Emoji Name | wilted flower |
Unicode Version Date Added for Emoji | 3.0June 2016 |
Category | |
Keywords | wilted flowerdyingsadness |
🥀 Meaning and Explanation
The 🥀 emoji depicts a single red rose with its petals drooping and stem bent, indicating that it is wilted or dying. It represents sadness, loss, disappointment, and the end of something beautiful.
It symbolizes fading beauty, broken hearts, unfulfilled love, and the transience of life. It can also evoke a sense of melancholy, regret, or things coming to an end.
This emoji is a clear visual for conveying deep emotional pain, the decay of beauty, or the conclusion of a relationship or phase.
🥀 How to Use
This emoji is commonly used when referring to:
- Sadness and Loss: To express grief, heartbreak, or the end of a relationship.
- Disappointment: When something beautiful or promising has failed or faded away.
- Fading Beauty: To describe something that is losing its vibrancy, charm, or life.
- Melancholy: To convey a somber, reflective, or wistful mood.
- Unrequited Love: To symbolize love that is not returned or a relationship that has withered.
🥀 Cultural Background
| Region | Common Meaning | Additional Notes or Misunderstandings |
|---|---|---|
| Global | Sadness, loss, fading beauty, end of love | Universally understood as a symbol of decay and emotional pain. |
| Western Cultures | Broken heart, unrequited love, gothic themes | Strong association with romantic heartbreak, tragic love stories, and gothic aesthetics. |
| Pop Culture | Symbol of decay, tragic romance | Frequently used in music, literature, and art to represent themes of loss, death, or the end of an era. |
| Figurative Use | "Wilted spirit", "fading hope" | Widely used metaphorically to describe a decline in enthusiasm, energy, or optimism. |