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Meaning & usage
What does the Coconut emoji mean?
A coconut cut open, for tropical food, beaches and sun cream.
Sunny and holiday-shaped. Food posts and beach captions share it evenly.
How to use 🥥 naturally
Holiday captions, smoothie posts and anything tropical.
Food and drink emoji are most often literal, but they also signal plans, cravings, celebrations and shared routines. Context is especially important when a food has a slang meaning in a particular community.
From standard to slang
The history of 🥥
- 2017
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Coconut was first defined as emoji in Emoji 5.0, dated 2017. One of the steady annual widenings of the vocabulary.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
Added in 2017 as a half shell beside a whole nut with the three dark pores showing. Those pores are what make it a coconut and not a stone.
- Today
How its use evolved
Holiday captions, smoothie posts and anything tropical.
Dates follow Unicode’s official Emoji Versions chart. Versions before Emoji 1.0 are labelled retrospectively. See the history of emoji.
In conversation
Examples of 🥥 in messages
These examples show the emoji in complete messages, where the words make its intended tone easier to read.
Drinking one on the beach, cliche accepted 🥥
Whole kitchen smells like summer 🥥
Factor fifty and this smell 🥥
When to use it
Using 🥥 clearly
Holiday captions, smoothie posts and anything tropical. It lands as coconut emoji or tropical emoji when the rest of the message supports that reading, and it is the surrounding words that do the deciding — so in a sensitive, professional or cross-cultural conversation, say the thing outright as well.
Common questions
About the coconut emoji
What does 🥥 mean in a text message?
A coconut cut open, for tropical food, beaches and sun cream. Sunny and holiday-shaped. Food posts and beach captions share it evenly.
Is 🥥 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are coconut emoji, tropical emoji, 🥥 meaning, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 🥥 look different on another device?
U+1F965 identifies the emoji; the picture is a font, drawn separately by Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung. Only the artwork changes, never the character.
How do I copy and paste the coconut emoji?
Use the copy button at the top of this page. 🥥 is a character, not an image, so it pastes into messages, captions and filenames as ordinary text.
When was the coconut emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 🥥 as emoji in Emoji 5.0, dated 2017. Early emoji version numbers can be retrospective, so this date describes its place in the standardised emoji set rather than the first-ever appearance of the underlying symbol.
For developers
🥥 in code
Every value below is generated from the character itself, so it stays correct even where a file encoding cannot hold the emoji directly.
| Format | Value | When to use it | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+1F965 | The standard reference. Use it to search a character map or a spec. | |
| HTML (hex) | 🥥 | For HTML and XML. Safe in files that are not saved as UTF-8. | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🥥 | The same reference in decimal. Both render identically. | |
| CSS | \1F965 | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F965} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%A5%A5 | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F965
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Also known as
- coconut emojitropical emoji🥥 meaning
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