Cactus emoji 🌵
Emoji 0.6 (2010) · U+1F335
What 🌵 means
In Unicode's CLDR data, Cactus 🌵 is tagged with these keywords: desert, drought, nature, plant.
Phone keyboards use the same keywords, so typing desert or drought in the emoji search brings up 🌵.
Cactus 🌵 is one of 17 emoji in the plants subgroup of animals & nature (161 emoji), next to 🌾 🌿 ☘️ 🍀.
Will 🌵 show on my friend's phone?
🌵 is one of the original emoji: it comes from the Japanese phone sets and is listed in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Every phone, computer and app shows it.
How to type 🌵
Any emoji picker finds 🌵 when you search for cactus.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type cactus.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type cactus in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type cactus.
Codes for developers
Cactus 🌵 is a single code point, U+1F335. In UTF-8 it takes 4 bytes, and in JavaScript its string length is 2.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1F335 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🌵 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🌵 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F335"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F335} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%8C%B5 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 8C B5 |
Names in other languages
The CLDR name of 🌵 in the 12 languages of this site. Each links to that language's page.
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What does the cactus emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🌵 "cactus" and links it with desert, drought, nature, plant. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the plants subgroup of animals & nature.
When was the cactus emoji added?
It is one of the very first emoji, part of Emoji 0.6 from 2010, so it works on any phone.
How do I type the cactus emoji?
Any emoji picker finds 🌵 when you search for cactus.