Florettes, rosettes and blossoms
Most text flowers come from the Dingbats block, where Unicode names them after their shape: ✿ is the black florette, ❀ the white florette, ❁ the eight petalled outlined black florette and ✾ the six petalled black and white florette. Because they are text, they follow the color of the words around them and stay small and neat next to a name.
ꕥ and ꕤ look like flowers but are syllables of the Vai script from Liberia in West Africa. They are popular in aesthetic bios, and they show on most current phones.
Ideas
- A name between two flowers: ✿ name ✿ or ❀ name ❀.
- A soft bio line: ⋆˚✿˖° followed by a short phrase.
- A flower divider between sections of a caption: ✿─────✿.
- Pair a flower with a script font from the cute fonts page.
Flower codes
| Symbol | Unicode name | Code point | HTML |
|---|---|---|---|
| ✿ | black florette | U+273F | ✿ |
| ❀ | white florette | U+2740 | ❀ |
| ❁ | eight petalled outlined black florette | U+2741 | ❁ |
| ❃ | heavy teardrop-spoked pinwheel asterisk | U+2743 | ❃ |
| ❊ | eight teardrop-spoked propeller asterisk | U+274A | ❊ |
| ❋ | heavy eight teardrop-spoked propeller asterisk | U+274B | ❋ |
| ✾ | six petalled black and white florette | U+273E | ✾ |
| ✽ | heavy teardrop-spoked asterisk | U+273D | ✽ |
| ⚘ | flower | U+2698 | ⚘ |
| ꕥ | vai syllable zha | U+A565 | ꕥ |
| ꕤ | vai syllable za | U+A564 | ꕤ |
| ❦ | floral heart | U+2766 | ❦ |
| ❧ | rotated floral heart bullet | U+2767 | ❧ |
| ⚜ | fleur-de-lis | U+269C | ⚜ |
| ✻ | teardrop-spoked asterisk | U+273B | ✻ |
| ✼ | open centre teardrop-spoked asterisk | U+273C | ✼ |
| ❈ | heavy sparkle | U+2748 | ❈ |
| ❉ | balloon-spoked asterisk | U+2749 | ❉ |
| ✤ | heavy four balloon-spoked asterisk | U+2724 | ✤ |
| ✥ | four club-spoked asterisk | U+2725 | ✥ |
| ⁕ | flower punctuation mark | U+2055 | ⁕ |
| ☘ | shamrock | U+2618 | ☘ |
Questions
What is the ✿ symbol called?
Its Unicode name is black florette. The outlined version ❀ is the white florette.
Are these flowers emoji?
The first group are text symbols that take your text color. The second group (🌸 🌷 🌹) are emoji with their own colors.
Do flower symbols work in Instagram bios?
Text flowers such as ✿ and ❀ are ordinary characters, so they paste into a bio like any other text. How they look depends on the reader's device.
Why do some flowers look like boxes?
The device has no font with that character. ✿ and ❀ are widely supported; rarer ones may not be.