🌹 Rose

🌹 Rose is one of the flowers in Unicode's Animals & Nature group. It usually appears in messages about beauty, elegant, flower and love. Further official keywords are plant, red and valentine.

You can drop 🌹 into chats, social posts, headlines or a bio. 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+1F339.

• 🌹 on its own already flags the topic: beauty.
• Fits messages about beauty, elegant, flower and love.
• Often seen near 🏵️ Rosette, 🪷 Lotus and 🥀 Wilted Flower.

The red rose as a token of love is not self-evident; it is the product of a Victorian fashion, the language of flowers, used in the nineteenth century to send messages that could not be spoken aloud. Red meant passionate love, yellow jealousy, white innocence.

The same flower has a second, political career: as a fist holding a rose it has been the emblem of social democratic parties in France, Spain and beyond since the 1970s. And across much of Central and Eastern Europe, an even number of flowers belongs at a funeral – a bouquet should always be odd.

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

Easy to mix up with 🏵️ Rosette, 🪷 Lotus or 🥀 Wilted Flower. They sit in the same Unicode subgroup and look similar at small sizes, so it is worth checking the name before sending.