The fleur-de-lis (⚜) — a stylized lily that served as the emblem of French royalty and lives on today in Scouting's World Crest and the New Orleans Saints logo. Click any symbol to copy it instantly.
The fleur-de-lis (⚜, U+269C) is a heraldic charge in the stylized shape of a lily or iris — in French, fleur means "flower" and lis means "lily." It is most famous as an emblem of French royalty, appearing on the coat of arms of France from the High Middle Ages until the monarchy's fall in 1792. Unicode added it in version 4.1 (2005), in the Miscellaneous Symbols block. Alongside its royal use, the flower carries a documented Christian association: in religious art it is linked to the Virgin Mary, and its three petals are sometimes read as the Holy Trinity. The same emblem has been widely adopted in the modern era. It forms the World Scout emblem — its three points said to stand for the three parts of the Scout Promise — chosen by Scouting founder Robert Baden-Powell for its resemblance to the north point of a compass. It is the logo of the NFL's New Orleans Saints, a marker of the region's French heritage, and it features prominently on the provincial flag of Quebec.
The fleur-de-lis dingbat and its emoji-style presentation.
Crowns and regalia that share the fleur-de-lis's heraldic, royal context.
Other single-glyph flower and florette emblems in the same decorative family.
Use UltraTextGen to convert plain text into bold, italic, cursive, and 100+ other Unicode font styles — free and instant.
Open UltraTextGen →Crowns, thrones, and regalia — the heraldic company the fleur-de-lis keeps.
Another single emblematic glyph whose path from decorative motif to defining symbol is a matter of documented record.
Another single star-shaped emblem carried across heraldry, religion, and the occult.