The seedling is the internet’s favorite “Day 1” badge—tiny, hopeful, and low-key braggy. It signals fresh starts, soft launches, habit resets, spring vibes, or the moment you decide to finally water both your plants and your personality. You’ll see it in posts about new projects, gym journeys, study grinds, sobriety milestones, sustainability goals, or that first timid step into plant-parent life. It’s also eco-coded: Earth Day captions, compost wins, reforestation links, and “touching grass” energy all live here.
On Apple/iOS, the seedling shows a small, glossy sprout with two oval, lime-to-emerald leaves and a short curved stem popping out of a neat brown soil mound. There’s gentle 3D shading, a clean highlight on the leaves, and a slightly tilted angle that makes it feel alive, like it just went “boop!” out of the dirt. No pot, no flowers—just minimalist vibes and instant recognition.
Culturally, it’s perfect for “glow-up in progress” posts and the classic soft-launch of a relationship or side hustle—cryptic pic, one green sprout, comments go feral. People use it flirtatiously (“wanna grow together?”), optimistically (green flag!), or with a wink when progress is microscopic but the delusion is Olympic-level. In startup speak it can mean seed money, while in meme land it’s the wholesome cousin of “we move.”
Definition
The start of a new plant, the first plant growth that comes out of a seed. Can be used to symbolize new beginnings or starting over.
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Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.
This emoji first appeared in OSX / iOS after the iOS 5 update.
Emoji General Information
Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank)
259 of 2393
Apple/iOS Picture
Google Android Picture
Google Hangouts Picture
Twitter.com Picture
LG Emoji Picture
Samsung Emoji Picture
Phantom Open Emoji Picture
Not created yet
ASCII Conversion
"Short Code" Name
:seedling:
Keywords
Seedling, Plant, New, Start, Grow
Unicode Category Information
Unicode Category
Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
Unicode Range
1F300–1F5FF
Unicode Subcategory
Plant Symbols
Proposed Unicode Information & Notes
Unicode Category
Nature
Unicode Subcategory
Plant Symbols
Names & Annotations
SEEDLING
Symbol Information
U+1F331 proposed
Proposal Identifier
e-03E
Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes
DoCoMo
#Exp.59 'Seedling' 芽 U+E746 SJIS-F9EB JIS-7B62
KDDI
#811 双葉 U+EB7D SJIS-F482 JIS-7B62
Softbank
#94 #old106 四つ葉 「四tsu葉」 U+E110 SJIS-F750
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)
1f331
Formal Unicode Notation
U+1F331
Decimal Code Point(s)
127793
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xF0 0x9F 0x8C 0xB1
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
F0 9F 8C B1
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
360 237 214 261
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xD83C 0xDF31
UTF-16 Hex
d83cdf31
UTF-16 Dec
55356 57137
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0001F331
UTF-32 Hex
01F331
UTF-32 Dec
127793
Python Src
u"\U0001F331"
PHP Src
"\xf0\x9f\x8c\xb1"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uD83C\uDF31"
Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)
