Cherry Emoji — Copy and Paste

The character

Official Unicode name: Cherries, plural. Codepoint U+1F352. It came in with Unicode 6.0 in 2010, in the batch of food characters taken over from the Japanese carrier sets, so it renders on effectively everything – old phones, old browsers, old mail clients.

There is no single-cherry character. The glyph is two fruit joined at a Y-shaped stem, and that is the only cherry Unicode has. If you need one cherry on its own you are cropping an image, not pasting a character.

How each platform draws it

Two cherries and a leaf is the shared skeleton, and every major vendor keeps it. That is why the emoji survives the trip from an iPhone to an Android phone without confusing anyone. The differences are in the shade of red, whether the stem is drawn brown or green, how many leaves there are, and how strong the highlight on the fruit is. Some designs sit the pair upright, others hang them at an angle. Vendors redraw emoji between OS releases, so treat any description as a snapshot and check the device that matters.

Small – a favicon, a compact chat list – and the leaf is the first thing to disappear. What is left is a red blob, close enough to strawberry or to Tomato 🍅 U+1F345 to be worth avoiding in tiny interface elements.

What people use it for

• Literally: cherry season, pie, jam, a bowl of them at a market.
• The cocktail garnish – a Manhattan or an old fashioned, usually alongside cocktail glass.
• “Cherry on top” – the finishing detail on something already good.
• A glossy, red, retro-sweet look in bios and display names, often paired with hearts.
• There is a long-standing sexual reading of the word “cherry” in English, and the character carries it in flirty contexts. Worth knowing before you put it in a work channel.

Cherry text art

There is no standard ASCII cherry, and the multi-line drawings you find elsewhere collapse the moment you paste them into a single-line field – a username, a bio, a search box. What survives is one line:

• 🍒🍒🍒
• -=🍒=-
• .:🍒:.
• ~*~🍒~*~

Each of those is the emoji plus plain ASCII punctuation, so it pastes anywhere the emoji itself is allowed and nothing extra can break.

Caveats

Screen readers announce “cherries”, not “cherry”, once per character. Emoji pickers still find it when you type the singular, because the search keywords include it even though the formal name does not. Many username and display-name fields strip emoji, and any system storing text as three-byte MySQL utf8 instead of utf8mb4 will refuse it.

Related: the full grid on fruit emoji, and the second readings on fruit emoji meanings.