Flower symbols ✿ ❀ copy and paste

The first part of the grid holds flower-shaped characters that behave like letters. They take the color of your text and look crisp at any size:

• ✿ BLACK FLORETTE and ❀ WHITE FLORETTE, the classic cute flowers
• ❁ EIGHT PETALLED OUTLINED BLACK FLORETTE and ✾ SIX PETALLED BLACK AND WHITE FLORETTE
• ❃ ❋ ✽ ✻ ✼ ❊ ❉ ✤ ✥, star-like asterisks with teardrop and balloon spokes
• ⚘ FLOWER, a single flower on a stem
• ❦ FLORAL HEART and ❧ ROTATED FLORAL HEART BULLET
• ☘ shamrock, ❂ and ❈ sparkle-like blossoms, and ꕤ, a Vai syllable that looks like a tiny flower

Most of these live in Unicode's Dingbats block, which was based on a classic set of printer's ornaments. ❦ and ❧ are traditional fleurons, also called hedera (ivy leaves); typographers have used them for centuries to mark a new section or the end of a chapter.

These are informal readings, not rules. The person and the situation matter more than any chart: a 🥀 can be sad in one chat and just stylish in another.

They're easy to mix up. ☘ SHAMROCK has three leaves and is the symbol of Ireland, which is why it shows up every St. Patrick's Day. 🍀 FOUR LEAF CLOVER has four leaves and stands for luck, because finding one is rare. If you're wishing someone a happy St. Patrick's Day, ☘ is the accurate one; for good luck before an exam or a game, use 🍀. ☘ also exists as an emoji (☘️), so some apps draw it in green while others keep it as a plain text character.

• Names and bios: ❀ Emily ❀ or ✿ plant mom ✿ give a soft, friendly look.
• Shop posts: a short line like ✿ Spring Sale ✿ frames a headline without needing bold text.
• Dividers: ❀ ❀ ❀ or ❧ on a line of its own separates parts of a caption or a newsletter.
• Cards and invitations: ❦ before a closing line looks classic in wedding or memorial text.
• Lists: ❧ works as a decorative bullet in a plain-text list.

Keep important words plain. Screen readers announce each flower by its Unicode name, so a row of five florettes is heard as five long names. One or two flowers per line is plenty.

Text flowers have no Windows Alt codes. To type one without copying, use Microsoft Word: type the code, for example 273F for ✿ or 2740 for ❀, then press Alt + X. On Linux, press Ctrl + Shift + U, the code, then Space. On a Mac, Control + Command + Space opens the Character Viewer, and on Windows Windows + . opens the emoji panel with all the flower emoji. For web pages, the detail panel gives you the HTML entity, such as ✿, plus CSS and JavaScript escapes.

Older phones may not show the newest flowers: 🪷 lotus arrived in Unicode 14.0 and 🪻 hyacinth in 15.0, so on an outdated device they can appear as empty boxes. The text florettes have been in Unicode since version 1.1 and display almost everywhere.