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🌈 Rainbow

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🌈 Emoji meaning

Peace, joy, acceptance, childlikeness, success, diversity, pride, magic.

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🌈 Meaning

After every low comes a high! The rainbow is a symboli of peace and unification. It is also a sign of happiness and hope.

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Commonly confused with

ZWJ Sequence

Rainbow

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Rainbow vs rainbow flag; both rainbow-colored, difference is plain rainbow vs symbolic LGBTQ+ flag.

Emoji History

Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexicon

First included

The emoji “Rainbow” was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and added to Emoji 0.6 .

In the release of Emoji 16.0 and Unicode 16.0 in 2024 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ gay + genderqueer + glbt + glbtq + lesbian + lgbt + lgbtq + lgbtqia + nature + pride + queer + trans + transgender + weather

In the release of Emoji 5.0 and Unicode 10.0 in 2017 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ rainbow

In the release of Emoji 3.0 and Unicode 9.0 in 2016 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ rain

In the release of Emoji 2.0 and Unicode 8.0 in 2015 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords removed

- rainbow

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Comments

(3) Comments

Skye Heaton 11/10/2025
Represents LGBTQ+ pride and inclusivity.
Daisy 10/19/2025
Often used to show LGBTQ+ pride, support, and celebration. 🌈️
Anonymous 9/8/2025
The emoji is often used by homosexuals. The rainbow reflects tolerance towards a diversity of ethnicities, gender, age.