The cactus emoji is your instant desert postcard: a classic saguaro silhouette broadcasting heat, arid vibes, and “don’t touch me” energy. It pops up when someone’s flexing a Southwest aesthetic, heading to Arizona or Joshua Tree, or giving a heat-wave weather update. In chat, it’s perfect for calling out a dry conversation, a delayed reply, or a mood so prickly you could pop a balloon—often paired with a wink to mean “I’m not thirsty.” It can also be a playful boundary marker, a way to say “hands off,” or used ironically in memes like “touch grass? sorry, only cactus.”
On Apple/iOS, it’s a bright green, front-facing saguaro with two upright arms, vertical ribbing, and tiny white spines dotted all over—no pot, no sand, just that glossy 3D shading Apple loves. The pose reads like a triumphant stick figure made of thorns, instantly recognizable at a glance. People drop it in captions for desert road trips, Coachella-adjacent fits, or succulent-parent life, and sometimes as a flirty anti-thirst signal: “I’m prickly, but worth the careful approach.” It’s resilient, a little dramatic, and perfect for when your humor is as dry as the Mojave.
Definition
A classic and easily recognizable cactus. Cacti (plural) have spines to protect themselves from being eaten in the desert. Talking about eating Mexican food or a trip to the desert, this emoji can help spice up that communication. Can be used to convey a prickly person or conversation.
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Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.
This emoji was part of the proprietary / non-standardized emoji set first introduced by Japanese carriers like Softbank. These emojis became part of the Apple iPhone starting in iOS 2.2 as an unlockable feature on handsets sold in English speaking countries.
In iOS 5 / OSX 10.7, the underlying code that the Apple OS generates for this emoji was changed.
Emoji General Information
Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank)
622 of 2393
Apple/iOS Picture
Google Android Picture
Google Hangouts Picture
Twitter.com Picture
LG Emoji Picture
Samsung Emoji Picture
Phantom Open Emoji Picture
ASCII Conversion
"Short Code" Name
:cactus:
Keywords
Cactus, Desert, Drought, Spike, Poke
Previous Names:
Organ Pipe Cactus
Unicode Category Information
Unicode Category
Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
Unicode Range
1F300–1F5FF
Unicode Subcategory
Plant Symbols
Editorial Comment
A familiar looking cactus, Just don't drink the water :), Also could be interpreted as desert.
Proposed Unicode Information & Notes
Unicode Category
Nature
Unicode Subcategory
Plant Symbols
Names & Annotations
CACTUS
Symbol Information
U+1F335 proposed
Proposal Identifier
e-048
Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes
DoCoMo
[サボテン]
KDDI
#399 サボテン 「saboten」 U+EA96 SJIS-F369 JIS-794A
Softbank
#100 #old278 サボテン 「saboten」 U+E308 SJIS-F9A8
Emoji Character Encoding Data
Emoji Code Version
iOS 5 - Current
UTF-8 Unicode Character(s)
🌵
UTF-8 Character Count
1
Character(s) In Input
AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS)
🌵
Decimal HTML Entity
🌵
Hexadecimal HTML Entity
🌵
Hex Code Point(s)
1f335
Formal Unicode Notation
U+1F335
Decimal Code Point(s)
127797
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xF0 0x9F 0x8C 0xB5
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
F0 9F 8C B5
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
360 237 214 265
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xD83C 0xDF35
UTF-16 Hex
d83cdf35
UTF-16 Dec
55356 57141
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0001F335
UTF-32 Hex
01F335
UTF-32 Dec
127797
Python Src
u"\U0001F335"
PHP Src
"\xf0\x9f\x8c\xb5"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uD83C\uDF35"
Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)
