What 🌲 means
They are usually setting an outdoor scene.
With a weekend invitation, think trails, a cabin and fresh air. Beside carols or presents, read it as festive scenery: the surrounding words do the deciding.
Casual and outdoorsy: more trailhead than tinsel.
For a clear Christmas greeting, choose 🎄 rather than relying on 🌲 alone.
Don't confuse it with
1Combination ideas
3A suggested pairing for camping among the pines.
A suggested pairing for snowy winter woods.
A suggested pairing for a forest hike.
Worth knowing
- The characters behind 🌲 existed in Unicode 5 years before anyone was allowed to draw them in colour: Unicode 6.0 in 2010, emoji presentation in 2015.
- 🌲 is a single code point, so it survives copying through almost anything — old databases, SMS gateways, printer drivers.
Questions people ask
1Why does 🌲 look different on my phone?
Artwork varies. In 2026, Apple, Google and Microsoft drew different shapes and textures, so it may resemble a pine or a fir. Those differences do not name a species.
How to type 🌲
Windows
Win+.Open the emoji picker and search “evergreen tree”.
macOS
Control+Command+Spaceopens the character viewer.
iOS / Android
Emoji keyboard → search “evergreen tree”.
Chat apps
:evergreen_tree:the common shortcode; support varies by platform.HTML
🌲Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🌲
HTML hex
🌲
CSS content
content: "\1F332";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%8C%B2
1
On screen
1
Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.