Spring Emoji

There is no single emoji for the season, so spring is spelled out with flowers. 🌷 Tulip is the one most people start with: pink on most platforms, red on a few, and the first bulb to bloom in gardens. 🌸 Cherry blossom is sakura, the pale pink five-petalled flower of Japanese spring, and it doubles as a soft, pretty accent all year. 🌼 Blossom is drawn as a yellow daisy-like flower and reads as sunshine and meadows, 🪻 hyacinth is the purple spike that covers lilac and lavender too, and 💐 bouquet is the gift of flowers for Mother's Day and birthdays. 🌺 hibiscus, 🌹 rose and 🌻 sunflower belong to late spring and summer, but a spring caption with plenty of colour uses them freely.

For the season's feeling of a fresh start, 🌱 seedling is the key emoji: new beginnings, a new habit, a plant-based choice, a new project. 🪴 potted plant is the houseplant you repot in spring, 🌿 herb is fresh green, 🍃 leaf fluttering in wind is a warm breeze, and 🌳 deciduous tree is the tree back in leaf. ☘️ shamrock and 🍀 four leaf clover are the greens of St. Patrick's Day on 17 March, which for many people is where spring posting begins; the St. Patrick's Day Emoji collection has the full set.

Spring animals: chicks, lambs, bees and butterflies

Three chicks look alike but have jobs: 🐣 hatching chick is the moment of birth and the most spring-specific emoji there is, 🐤 baby chick is the fluffy side view, and 🐥 front-facing baby chick is the one looking at you. 🪺 nest with eggs and 🪹 empty nest arrived in 2021, so an older phone shows them as a blank box; 🥚 egg is the plain egg (there is no painted Easter egg, see Easter Emoji). The birds of spring are 🐦 bird, 🐦‍⬛ black bird for the dawn chorus, 🦆 duck, 🪿 goose and 🦢 swan for the ducklings and goslings on the pond, 🕊️ dove for peace and Easter, and 🪶 feather for a found feather or a light touch.

🐰 rabbit face and 🐇 rabbit are the Easter Bunny and also the hares boxing in March fields. 🐑 ewe is the spring lamb (there is no separate lamb emoji; 🐑 does the job in a lambing-season post) with 🐏 ram beside it, 🐸 frog is for frogspawn and the first evening croaking, and 🦔 hedgehog for animals waking from hibernation. Then the insects return: 🐝 honeybee and 🦋 butterfly are the two spring emoji after the flowers, 🐞 lady beetle is luck in the garden, 🐛 bug is the caterpillar that becomes 🦋, and 🐌 snail, 🪱 worm, 🐜 ant and 🪲 beetle fill a wet spring lawn. The Bug & Insect Emoji and Bird Emoji collections go deeper.

Spring weather emoji: sun, showers and rainbows

Spring weather changes by the hour, and the sky emoji run in a sequence you can use like a forecast: ☀️ sun, 🌞 sun with face, 🌤️ sun behind small cloud, ⛅ sun behind cloud, 🌥️ sun behind large cloud, ☁️ cloud, 🌦️ sun behind rain cloud, 🌧️ cloud with rain, ⛈️ cloud with lightning and rain and 🌪️ tornado for the spring storm season in the American Midwest. 🌦️ is the April shower itself, sun and rain at once, and it is the natural partner of 🌈 rainbow, the emoji for the proverb April showers bring May flowers.

☔ umbrella with rain drops means it is raining now; ☂️ umbrella and 🌂 closed umbrella mean take one just in case. 💧 droplet is a single raindrop or dew, 💦 sweat droplets a splash or a downpour, and 🌬️ wind face the gusty March wind that flies 🪁 kite. The finer weather emoji 🌤️ 🌥️ 🌦️ 🌧️ 🌬️ were added in 2014 as text symbols first, so in some fonts and apps they appear as thin black-and-white line drawings unless the app forces colour; ☀️ ☁️ ☔ are older and show in colour everywhere. Spring also brings pollen, which is what 🤧 sneezing face next to a flower means. For the whole set of sky emoji see Weather Emoji.

Spring celebrations and customs

Astronomical spring begins at the March equinox, around 20 March in the Northern Hemisphere (20 March in 2026); meteorologists count it from 1 March, and in Australia, South Africa and South America spring runs from September to November, so a spring emoji post from Sydney lands while Europe is raking leaves. Nowruz, the Persian New Year, falls on the equinox, and its Haft-sin table is practically an emoji set already: sprouted wheat 🌱, painted eggs 🥚, hyacinth 🪻, apples and a goldfish. Holi, the Hindu festival of colours, comes in March too, and a rainbow of hearts 🩷💛💚🩵💜 is how it is written in chat.

Japan's spring is the richest in emoji because so many of the originals came from Japanese phones. 🎎 Japanese dolls is the doll display of Hinamatsuri, Girls' Day, on 3 March. 🌸 with 🍡 dango and 🏮 red paper lantern is hanami, a picnic under the cherry trees, and the three-coloured hanami dango are pink, white and green for blossom, snow and new leaves; 💮 white flower is the cherry-blossom stamp a teacher puts on good homework. 🎏 carp streamer is the koinobori flown for Children's Day on 5 May. In the West, Easter brings 🐰 🐣 🥚 🧺, Earth Day on 22 April brings 🌍 🌎 🌏 ♻️, May Day on 1 May is flowers and ribbons, and Mother's Day, the second Sunday of May in the United States and many other countries (the UK's Mothering Sunday falls earlier, in Lent), is the biggest day of the year for 💐 and 🌷.

Spring text symbols, and the spring that is not a season

For bios, usernames and captions that should stay in one colour, the dingbat flowers work better than emoji: ✿ black florette and ❀ white florette are the classics, ❁ ✾ ❃ are fuller blooms, ⚘ is a flower on its stem, 🎕 a bouquet and ⁕ a small flower-shaped punctuation mark used as a divider. ❦ ❧ ☙ are floral hearts and leaves, the printer's ornaments called hedera (ivy leaf), and 🙔 is a turned leaf. ☼ is a plain sun, ⛆ rain and 🌢 a black droplet. 春 is the Chinese and Japanese character for spring (chūn, haru), and 🀦 is the Spring tile from a mahjong set's four season tiles. Everything here is in the grid above and in Flower Emoji & Symbols.

A lot of people looking for a spring emoji want the other kind of spring: the metal coil, the boing, the thing in a car's suspension. There isn't one. The closest stand-ins are ➰ curly loop and ➿ double curly loop for the coil, and 〰️ wavy dash for the bounce. ♨️ hot springs is the only emoji with spring in its name: the Japanese onsen sign, three wisps of steam, which also marks hot springs on maps. There is no spring roll emoji (🥟 dumpling is the usual replacement) and no spring onion emoji (🧅 onion or 🌿 herb).