🍁 Maple Leaf

Unicode lists 🍁 Maple Leaf among the plants in the Animals & Nature group. In practice it comes up around falling, leaf and maple.

Worth knowing: 🍁 carries a second, informal reading. In chats it often means something other than the literal picture – our overview of double meaning emojis explains which one.

🍁 fits messaging apps, social networks and anywhere a short visual cue helps. On SmileyZone it is filed under Animals and Nature. The character has been part of the standard since 2010 (Emoji 0.6). Its code point is U+1F341.

• 🍁 works as a one-character reply when falling is the subject.
• Fits messages about falling, leaf and maple.
• Often seen near ☘️ Shamrock, 🍀 Four Leaf Clover and 🍂 Fallen Leaf.

The maple leaf has been at the centre of the Canadian flag since 1965 and was already a national emblem in the nineteenth century. The leaf depicted is stylised and matches no single maple species.

In Japan the autumn maple has its own name, momiji, and its own festival: momijigari, leaf-viewing, is the autumn counterpart to cherry-blossom viewing.

• 🍁☘️ – Maple Leaf and Shamrock
• 🍁🍃 – Maple Leaf with Leaf Fluttering in Wind
• 🍁🪹 – Maple Leaf plus Empty Nest
• 🍁🌵 – Maple Leaf and Cactus
• 🍁🌾 – Maple Leaf with Sheaf of Rice
• 🍁🍀 – Maple Leaf plus Four Leaf Clover
• 🍁🌿 – Maple Leaf and Herb
• 🍁🌴 – Maple Leaf with Palm Tree

Easy to mix up with ☘️ Shamrock, 🍀 Four Leaf Clover or 🍂 Fallen Leaf. They sit in the same Unicode subgroup and look similar at small sizes, so it is worth checking the name before sending.