What 🙖 means
It marks a text break or adds a leaf-shaped flourish. A fleuron is a small printer’s ornament, usually a leaf or flower; this dingbat is a decorative character for page design.
Leaf ornaments appear in ancient writing. A hedera, a stylized ivy leaf, marks a word break in a Roman inscription around 100 CE. That supports the broader ornament tradition, not this exact turned orientation.
In sixteenth-century European printing, related vine-leaf fleurons moved from title pages into other parts of books. They show how these ornaments could mark a transition, fill space, or frame a page.
Why can 🙖 look different or show as a box?
The font supplies the drawing, and some fonts lack this character.
Unicode’s proposal maps this character to the Wingdings glyph label w-1208. Fonts can draw the same character differently; one without a suitable glyph may show a box. That is a font gap, not a different leaf.
Print-inspired and decorative; it reads as layout punctuation more than a mood.
Alone in a chat, its emotional intent is unclear; add words when that matters.
What it means when someone sends it to you
3 readingsA pause or transition in the text.
Related characters
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Combination ideas
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1Why does 🙖 show as a box?
The selected font may lack this ornamental character. A font that includes a matching glyph is needed for it to display as a leaf.
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How to type or find 🙖
- Search it as
- fleuron · dingbat · Wingdings · leaf ornament · leaf divider · printer's ornament · ornamental leaf
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
🙖\1F656Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.