Kiwi Fruit Emoji — and the Fruits That Have No Emoji
Kiwifruit is one word in Unicode and one character, U+1F95D. Dragon fruit, passion fruit, star fruit and dates have no character at all. This page copies the ones that exist and names substitutes for the ones that do not.
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Kiwifruit – the character that does exist
Official Unicode name Kiwifruit, written as one word, codepoint U+1F95D. It was added in Unicode 9.0 and Emoji 3.0 in 2016, the same release as avocado. Typing “kiwi” into an emoji picker still finds it, because the search keywords carry the short form even though the formal name does not.
Vendors agree on the design almost completely: a half kiwi seen face on, bright green flesh, a pale core, a ring of black seeds, a fuzzy brown rim of skin. Some sets put a whole fruit behind the half. Nobody draws the bird. That level of agreement is unusual and it makes this one safe to send across platforms.
The fruits that have no emoji
These get searched for constantly. None of them has a Unicode character.
| Fruit | Character? | Closest thing that does exist |
|---|---|---|
| Dragon fruit, pitaya | No | Melon 🍈 U+1F348 for the pale seeded flesh; Blueberries 🫐 U+1FAD0 if you want the magenta |
| Passion fruit | No | Kiwifruit 🥝 U+1F95D – the only cut, seeded, spoonable half on the keyboard |
| Star fruit, carambola | No | Nothing in the fruit set is star-shaped. The workaround is a star symbol next to a fruit |
| Dates | No | Coconut 🥥 U+1F965 is the only brown-skinned fruit character, and it is not close |
| Raspberry, blackberry | No | Blueberries 🫐 U+1FAD0 or Grapes 🍇 U+1F347 for a cluster of dark berries |
| Fig, guava, lychee, papaya | No | Peach 🍑 U+1F351 for anything round and blushed; Mango 🥭 U+1F96D for tropical |
Why some fruit gets a character and some does not
New emoji go through the Unicode Consortium’s public proposal process. A proposal has to argue that a lot of people would use the character, that nothing already covers it, and that it is not a brand or a person. Absence is not permanent: Blueberries U+1FAD0 and Olive U+1FAD2 both arrived in Emoji 13.0 in 2020, and Mango U+1F96D in Emoji 11.0 in 2018. A fruit missing today can be added later.
The fastest way to check for yourself is your own emoji picker. Open it, type the fruit name, and if nothing comes back there is no character – the picker searches the same keyword list every platform ships.
Age is the other trap
Existing and rendering are not the same thing. The 2010 fruit draws on almost anything. Avocado and Kiwifruit, both from 2016, are nearly as safe. Mango and Coconut are from 2018 and Blueberries and Olive from 2020, and those four are the ones that turn into empty boxes on an old phone. If the message has to land, pick from the old set.
Caveats
Screen readers announce the official name, so the kiwi is read “kiwifruit” and 🫐 is read “blueberries” – plural, even when you meant one. Username fields often strip emoji, and three-byte MySQL utf8 columns cannot store any of these.
More: the full copy grid at fruit emoji, the 2018 character on its own page at mango, and second readings at fruit emoji meanings.