Strawberry Emoji — Copy and Paste
Strawberry is one character, U+1F353, on effectively every device since 2010. Copy it below, or set a count and paste a row. Under the grid: how the platforms differ, what to use for strawberry cake, and where it breaks.
Tap any tile to copy it. Nothing is sent anywhere — the copy happens in your browser.
Repeat it 100, 1000 or 10,000 times
100 copies — 499 characters.
The character
Official name Strawberry, codepoint U+1F353, part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010. Like the rest of that food batch it came out of the Japanese carrier emoji sets, and because it is that old it renders on almost anything you can send a message from. No variation selector needed – the character has emoji presentation by default.
How each platform draws it
The design is unusually stable across vendors: a red berry, a green calyx at the top, pale seeds speckled across the surface. What changes is the tilt of the fruit, how glossy the highlight is, and how the seeds are drawn – some sets render them as pale dots, some as tiny slashes. At small sizes the seeds and the leaves go first, and what is left is a red teardrop easy to confuse with cherries or a heart in a compact list. Vendors redraw their sets between OS releases, so check on the device that matters when the exact look is the point.
“Strawberry cake emoji” – there is not one
No character means strawberry cake. The one people are reaching for is Shortcake, U+1F370 🍰, which most vendors draw as a triangular slice of sponge with cream and a strawberry on top. That is why it looks like a strawberry cake without being named one. If you want the fruit and the cake as separate ideas, pair the strawberry with Shortcake or with Birthday Cake 🎂 U+1F382 – the whole set is at cake emoji.
What people use it for
- The fruit: picking, jam, shortcake, farmers markets, summer.
- Flavor tags on menus, drinks lists and product names – milkshake, daiquiri, syrup.
- Sweetness in the affectionate sense, in bios and display names, usually next to pink and red hearts.
- Hair color. “Strawberry blonde” gets shortened to the character.
Strawberry text art
Multi-line ASCII strawberries look fine in a code block and fall apart in a username, a bio or a search field, because those inputs are one line and collapse the spacing. One-line pieces survive: 🍓🍓🍓 -=🍓=- .:🍓:. ~*~🍓~*~ . All of them are the emoji plus plain ASCII, so they paste wherever the emoji itself is allowed.
Caveats
Screen readers announce “strawberry” once per character, so a decorative run of twenty is twenty announcements. Plenty of username fields strip emoji entirely. Any database column stored as MySQL three-byte utf8 rather than utf8mb4 cannot hold it. Keep it out of filenames, and out of anything that will be read aloud.
Also here: the full copy grid at fruit emoji and the second readings at fruit emoji meanings.