🪹 is the empty nest: a twig nest with nothing in it. 🪺 nest with eggs holds three eggs. They mean nests and nesting — spring birds, Easter — and the human meanings…
What the empty nest 🪹 and nest with eggs 🪺 emoji means
🪹 is the empty nest: a twig nest with nothing in it. 🪺 nest with eggs holds three eggs. They mean nests and nesting — spring birds, Easter — and the human meanings: empty-nest parents whose kids have left home, and nesting before a baby or in a new home. Both were added in Emoji 14.0 (2021). Related: 🐦 bird, 🥚 egg, 🐣 hatching chick, 🌳 on the tree guide; the season on the Easter list.
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