🪷 Lotus

Unicode lists 🪷 Lotus among the flowers in the Animals & Nature group. It usually appears in messages about beauty, buddhism, calm and flower. Further official keywords are hinduism, peace, purity and serenity.

You can drop 🪷 into chats, social posts, headlines or a bio. On SmileyZone it is filed under Animals and Nature. It joined the standard with Emoji 14.0 in 2021, so support on current devices is reliable. Its code point is U+1FAB7.

• 🪷 on its own already flags the topic: beauty.
• Fits messages about beauty, buddhism, calm and flower.
• Often seen near 🏵️ Rosette, 🌸 Cherry Blossom and 💮 White Flower.

The lotus grows out of mud and flowers immaculate – hence its meaning in Buddhism and Hinduism: purity despite adverse conditions. The Buddha is frequently shown on a lotus throne.

It is the national flower of India and Vietnam and, in Egypt, has signified rebirth since antiquity because it opens in the morning and closes at night. Unicode only adopted it in 2021, following a petition from the Indian community.

• 🪷🏵️ – Lotus and Rosette
• 🪷🌸 – Lotus with Cherry Blossom
• 🪷🌺 – Lotus plus Hibiscus
• 🪷💮 – Lotus and White Flower
• 🪷🥀 – Lotus with Wilted Flower
• 🪷🌹 – Lotus plus Rose
• 🪷🌼 – Lotus and Blossom
• 🪷🪻 – Lotus with Hyacinth

Easy to mix up with 🏵️ Rosette, 🌸 Cherry Blossom or 💮 White Flower. They sit in the same Unicode subgroup and look similar at small sizes, so it is worth checking the name before sending.