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🌷 Tulip

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🌷 Emoji meaning

Blooming! Awakening, harmony, new beginnings, beauty, and elegance.

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🌷 Meaning

A tulip is the harbinger of spring. It is often posted as a courtesy. Worldwide, splendid tulip festivals are organized. Can be understood as the awakening of nature.

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Commonly confused with

Color Variant

Tulip

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Tulip vs cherry blossom; both pastel-colored spring flowers, context usually more important than species.

Tulip

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Hyacinth vs tulip; purple vs red/pink flowers, similar upright bulb-plant silhouettes.

Same Shape

Tulip

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Bouquet vs tulip; both are stylized flowers often used generically for giving flowers or congratulations.

Tulip

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Blossom vs tulip; generic flower shape vs specific tulip, both used generally for ‘flower’.

Emoji History

Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexicon

First included

The emoji “Tulip” 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

+ blossom + growth + plant

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

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ tulip

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

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ flower

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

Keywords changed

Keywords removed

- tulip

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Gregory 1/21/2026
Represents purity and renewal, similar to the elegance of a fleur-de-lis.