🥀 wilted flower Emoji — Meaning, Copy & Paste

What Does the wilted flower Emoji 🥀 Mean?

A drooping red rose hanging sadly off its stem, leaves limp and head bowed — the wilted flower emoji captures everything melancholy in a single bloom past its prime. Texters reach for it when love fizzles, friendships fade, or a great moment finally ends. It's the go-to for breakup posts, heartbreak playlists, and "this used to mean something" captions across Instagram and Twitter.

Beyond romance, it shows up in posts about exhaustion ("me by Friday"), bad days, lost motivation, and anything that's seen better times. There's also a darker meta usage: people send it after canceling someone, mocking a fallen icon, or marking the end of something once cherished. Compared to the upright red rose emoji, this one is its tragic twin — same flower, opposite emotional weight.

Added to Unicode 9.0 in 2016, it quickly became one of the most expressive emotional emojis on the keyboard, especially in the breakup-text genre, where a single 🥀 can carry an entire emotional arc.