Banana Emoji — Copy and Paste

What the character is

The official Unicode name is Banana and the codepoint is U+1F34C. It arrived in Unicode 6.0 in 2010, in the same batch as most of the fruit. It is a single codepoint — no zero-width joiner, no skin-tone modifier, no variation selector — so it survives copy and paste anywhere that accepts emoji.

How it renders across platforms

What you copy is the codepoint. The picture is drawn by the emoji font on the reading device, which is why the same paste looks different at each end of a conversation.

• Apple Color Emoji on iPhone and Mac: shaded, glossy, with visible highlights.
• Google Noto Color Emoji on most Android phones: flatter, more graphic, softer shading.
• Samsung ships its own emoji set on Galaxy phones rather than using Noto.
• Windows uses Segoe UI Emoji — flat on Windows 10, rounder and shaded since the Fluent redesign in Windows 11.
• WhatsApp, Twitter/X, Facebook and Discord replace the operating system’s artwork with their own.

Banana is one of the safer ones to send. Every vendor draws a single yellow unpeeled banana, so it never gets misread the way some food characters do. Only the style, the curve and the browning of the tip change.

Building strings from the fruit row

The grid above is the whole fruit group, which is what you want when you are composing rather than copying one character: 🍌🍒🍓 for a smoothie, 🍌🍦 for a banana split, 🍌🍞 for banana bread. Two of the newer ones are from Unicode 13.0 in 2020 — 🫐 Blueberries and 🫒 Olive — and show as boxes on anything not updated since. The rest of the row and the individual pages sit on the fruit emoji hub, with mango and the others broken out separately.

What people use it for

Grocery lists and meal logs, gym and nutrition posts, recipe titles, potassium jokes, shop listings, lunchbox notes, and long repeated runs for emphasis. Banana also carries a second, suggestive reading in some contexts. That is a meaning question rather than a copy question, and it is handled properly on fruit emoji meanings along with the peach and the aubergine.

Banana text art, honestly

No Unicode character draws a banana as line art. Everything sold as “banana ASCII art” is typed by hand from brackets, slashes and underscores. It lines up only in a monospaced font, and most chat and social boxes use a proportional font and collapse repeated spaces, so a multi-line drawing usually arrives crooked. Single-line shapes hold together; block art rarely does.

Caveats

• Screen readers announce it as “banana” every time. A run of twenty is read out twenty times.
• Most username and handle fields reject it outright.
• Old databases using MySQL’s three-byte utf8 cannot store characters above the basic plane, so the banana silently disappears on save.
• Its neighbours 🍅 Tomato and 🫒 Olive are botanically fruit but sit with the vegetables in some pickers, so they are easy to miss in a search.