Fruit Emoji Meanings

One row per fruit: the official Unicode name, the codepoint, the literal reading, and the second reading where a real one exists. It also says plainly which meanings are widespread and which were one platform's short-lived habit.

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Every fruit character and how it is read

Char	Unicode name	Codepoint	Literal	Second reading
🍑	Peach	U+1F351	The fruit	Buttocks – the dominant reading in flirty contexts
🍒	Cherries	U+1F352	Two cherries on a stem	Cocktail garnish, “cherry on top”, and a sexual reading of the word
🍌	Banana	U+1F34C	The fruit	Innuendo in flirty contexts; otherwise entirely literal
🍓	Strawberry	U+1F353	The fruit	Sweetness, summer, a flavor tag
🍇	Grapes	U+1F347	A bunch of grapes	The purple fruit; wine and harvest
🍊	Tangerine	U+1F34A	Orange citrus	Oranges, mandarins, clementines, juice, the color orange
🍋	Lemon	U+1F34B	The fruit	Sour, a dud purchase, bitterness made into a joke
🍍	Pineapple	U+1F34D	Whole pineapple	Tropical, hospitality, summer
🥑	Avocado	U+1F951	A cut half with the stone	Health food, and the two-halves joke between couples
🍉	Watermelon	U+1F349	A cut slice	Summer, picnics, heat
🍎	Red Apple	U+1F34E	The fruit	Teachers and school, health, an apple a day
🍏	Green Apple	U+1F34F	The fruit	Tart apple; green as a color code
🍐	Pear	U+1F350	The fruit	Body-shape shorthand, and “pear-shaped” for a plan going wrong
🍈	Melon	U+1F348	A whole melon	Melon; stands in for pale seeded flesh generally
🥝	Kiwifruit	U+1F95D	A cut half	Kiwi; sometimes New Zealand, though nobody draws the bird
🥭	Mango	U+1F96D	Whole fruit with a leaf	Tropical flavor, mango season
🥥	Coconut	U+1F965	A cut coconut	Beach, tropical, coconut flavor
🫐	Blueberries	U+1FAD0	A small cluster	Blue-purple as a color, berries in general
🫒	Olive	U+1FAD2	An olive on a sprig	Martini garnish, Mediterranean food, olive oil
🍅	Tomato	U+1F345	The fruit	Pasta and salad; sometimes thrown at a bad performance

The ones with a real second reading

Peach, U+1F351. The best-known second reading of any fruit character: buttocks. It is settled enough that when Apple restyled the peach in an iOS 10 beta so that it looked more like a fruit, the change drew public complaint and the earlier shape was back by release. Read the room before you send it.

Banana, U+1F34C. Innuendo in a flirty thread, literal everywhere else. Same character both ways; detail on banana emoji.

Cherries, U+1F352. Fruit, cocktail garnish, “cherry on top”, and a sexual reading of the English word the character inherits. More at cherry emoji.

Grapes, U+1F347. This is the answer to “purple fruit emoji”. The only other purple fruit on the keyboard is Blueberries U+1FAD0, and grapes is almost always the one people mean.

Tangerine, U+1F34A. And this is the answer to “what does the orange fruit emoji mean”. The official Unicode name is Tangerine and there is no separate orange character, so this one stands in for oranges, mandarins, clementines, juice, vitamin C, and the color orange itself.

Avocado, U+1F951. Health food, and the two-halves joke between couples – a cut avocado gives one half with the stone and one without. See avocado emoji.

Pineapple, U+1F34D. Tropical and hospitable in general use. There is also a narrow subculture code attached to it, real but far from universal – assume the tropical reading unless the context clearly says otherwise.

The Snapchat fruit code

A chain message circulated some years ago on Snapchat and Facebook telling people to set a fruit as their status to signal their relationship situation. It is the source of nearly every search for Snapchat fruit meanings. Three things are worth knowing about it. It was never a Snapchat feature – no menu, no setting, nothing in the app. The versions that circulated did not agree with each other, so two people running the same joke could mean different things by the same fruit. And it has largely faded. If someone posts a fruit today, read it literally first and ask rather than assume.

Fruit or vegetable

Tomato, avocado and olive are botanically fruit and behave like vegetables in a kitchen, which is why they get searched for under both headings. Keyboard grouping is about ordering, not botany.

What “meaning” does not mean

None of the second readings above are part of the standard. Unicode gives each character a name and a codepoint. It does not assign connotations. Second readings are regional, generational and unstable, and a screen reader announces the official name regardless – a peach used as innuendo is read aloud as “peach”. If a message would be a problem when read literally, do not rely on a second reading to carry it.

Copy any of these from the grid above or from fruit emoji, and see the same treatment applied to the rest of the food set at food emoji meanings.