What ⚘ means
It means a flower, floral decoration, or botanical marker. Context shows whether it labels a plant or adds a flourish.
A 2003 Unicode proposal described it as a botanical mark for dictionary entries.
Why does ⚘ feel bookish?
By the sixteenth century, printers used formal flower ornaments, called fleurons, to divide paragraphs or lists and fill decorative space. ⚘ is a different glyph, but that tradition explains its divider-like feel.
Part of the collection
What it means when someone sends it to you
3 readingsA botanical label.
Don't confuse it with
1
Combination ideas
4Gentle thanks with a flower.
Giving someone a flower.
Flower and love, a soft bio decoration.
Flower border for an aesthetic bio.
Questions people ask
1Does ⚘ look different in different fonts?
Yes. It is a text symbol, so the display font can draw its flower outline differently.
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Collections with ⚘
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How to type or find ⚘
- Search it as
- flower symbol · botanical symbol · flower divider · fleuron
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
⚘
HTML hex
⚘
CSS content
content: "\2698";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%9A%98
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On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.