Easter Emoji

🐰 Rabbit face and 🐇 rabbit stand for the Easter Bunny. 🐣 Hatching chick is the most Easter-specific emoji of all, a chick breaking out of its shell, and it pairs with 🐤 baby chick and 🐥 front-facing baby chick for a whole brood. 🥚 Egg and 🪺 nest with eggs cover the egg hunt, 🧺 basket holds the finds, and 🍫 chocolate bar, 🍬 candy and 🍭 lollipop are what's inside.

There is no painted Easter egg emoji: 🥚 is a plain white or brown egg on every platform. To say decorated eggs, people pair it with 🎨 artist palette or 🖌️ paintbrush, or with pastel hearts 🩷 💛 🩵 💜 💚.

Spring flowers and nature for Easter

Easter falls in spring in the Northern Hemisphere, so flowers do much of the work: 🌷 tulip, 🌸 cherry blossom, 🌼 blossom, 🪻 hyacinth and 💐 bouquet. 🌱 seedling and 🌿 herb mean new growth, 🦋 butterfly is a traditional image of new life, and 🐞 lady beetle, 🐝 honeybee, ☀️ sun, 🌞 sun with face and 🌈 rainbow make a message bright and springy.

For farmyard Easter, 🐑 ewe stands in for the Easter lamb, with 🐔 chicken and 🦆 duck beside the chicks and 🥕 carrot for the bunny's snack.

Religious Easter emoji and symbols

For Christians Easter celebrates the resurrection of Jesus, and the emoji follow that: ✝️ latin cross, ☦️ orthodox cross, 🕊️ dove, ⛪ church, 🙏 folded hands, 🕯️ candle for the Easter vigil and 🔔 bell for the bells that ring again on Easter morning. The lamb 🐑 also carries the meaning of the Lamb of God.

As text symbols, crosses come in several styles that keep the colour of your text: ✞ shadowed cross, 🕆 white latin cross, ✟ outlined cross and ☧ the chi-rho, the early Christian monogram of Christ. ⸙ palm branch fits Palm Sunday, the start of Holy Week, and florettes ✿ ❀ make soft dividers for a Happy Easter card.

Easter traditions behind the emoji

Western churches celebrate Easter on the first Sunday after the first full moon on or after 21 March, so the date moves between 22 March and 25 April. Orthodox churches use the Julian calendar for the calculation, so their Easter often comes a week or more later.

The Easter Bunny came to America with German immigrants in Pennsylvania in the 1700s, who told children about the Osterhase that laid coloured eggs. In France and Belgium the church bells are said to fly to Rome before Easter and come back on Easter morning with chocolate, which is why 🔔 belongs in an Easter message. In Greece and other Orthodox countries eggs are dyed red, and Ukrainian pysanky are decorated with wax and dye in intricate patterns.

What does the Easter Island emoji mean?

🗿 Moai shows one of the giant stone heads of Rapa Nui, the Pacific island that Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen named Easter Island because he reached it on Easter Sunday in 1722. That's the only link to the holiday, but it is why 🗿 is often called the Easter Island emoji.

In chats 🗿 has its own life as a deadpan, stone-faced reaction: unimpressed, unbothered, or a dry joke. Sending it with 🐣 is a pun on the name, not a religious or spring symbol.