Empty Nest Emoji
What does the Empty Nest emoji mean?
A cup-shaped nest perched on a tree branch, usually used to symbolize the “empty nest” and the bittersweet emotions parents feel when their children leave home.
This emoji shows an empty nest woven from twigs. Depending on the context, it can carry either positive or negative connotations.
A nest evokes home and security — a familiar place where you feel safe and at peace. But an empty nest also highlights absence: no eggs, no occupants. Often it suggests parents miss their children, who have grown up and left the nest.
Apple Name
- 🪹 Empty Nest
Unicode Name
- 🪹 Empty Nest
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
Download the Empty Nest emoji
Vector file from the Noto Emoji set by Google, licence CC BY 4.0.
🪹 Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+1FAB9
Shortcodes
- works in Discord, Slack
For developers
| URL escape code | %F0%9F%AA%B9 |
| Punycode | xn--x19h |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | f0 9f aa b9 |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | \ud83e\udeb9 |
| C, C++, Python | \U0001fab9 |
| CSS | \01FAB9 |
| PHP, Ruby | \u{1FAB9} |
| Perl | \x{1FAB9} |
| HTML hex | 🪹 |
| HTML dec | 🪹 |
Tags: empty nest, nesting, branch, empty, home, nest
Category: Animals & Nature