Dead Rose Emoji
Wilted Flower Emoji
The Wilted Flower emoji was included in Unicode 9.0 and introduced to Emoji 3.0 in 2016.
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Broken Heart
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Bouquet
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Dead Rose Emoji meaning
The ๐ฅ Dead Rose Emoji, known as the Wilted Flower Emoji, typically depicts a limp, faded red rose drooping on a dried-out green stem, often shedding a petal. It primarily symbolizes sadness, heartbreak, loss, or the end of something, such as a relationship or a dream. The emoji can convey a sense of melancholy, faded beauty, or the passage of time, often tied to themes of impermanence in art and literature. It can also carry an ironic tone or, less commonly, represent a rose or flower with positive connotations.
Different platforms may depict it uniquely: WhatsApp shows a wilted ๐ป sunflower, Twitter a ๐ท tulip, and Facebookโs was once orange. Itโs distinct from the ๐น Rose emoji.
Origin
The ๐ฅ Dead Rose Emoji was originally approved in Unicode 9.0 and added to Emoji 3.0 in 2016. It gained viral popularity on platforms like Twitter/X in the late 2010s and early 2020s, but its meme status peaked with the TikTok trend starting in February 2025.
Its ironic and meme use surged in early 2025, mainly as a reaction to the overuse of the broken heart emoji (๐) in memes and social media posts. TikTok users, particularly on JuggTok, began favoring the dead rose emoji as a less mainstream alternative to the broken heart emoji. This shift sparked a viral trend where the dead rose emoji was incorporated into slang overload posts, emojipastas, and copypastas such as the "Nah She Got You Blushing Twin" meme.