Try Kiwi Fruit emoji
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Meaning & usage
What does the Kiwi Fruit emoji mean?
A halved kiwi showing the green flesh, for fruit and breakfast.
Fresh and unfussy. It is a breakfast fruit in most posts and a national nickname in a few.
How to use 🥝 naturally
Fruit bowls, smoothie posts and New Zealand references.
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 🥝
- 2016
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Kiwi Fruit was first defined as emoji in Emoji 3.0, dated 2016. Part of the rapid mid-decade expansion beyond the original mobile set.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
Added in 2016 as a half fruit with black seeds around a pale core. Cutting it in half was necessary, since a whole kiwi is a brown oval and nothing else.
- Today
How its use evolved
Fruit bowls, smoothie posts and New Zealand references.
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.
Half of one on the yoghurt every morning 🥝
Bought six, ate six 🥝
Sharp enough to notice 🥝
When to use it
Using 🥝 clearly
Fruit bowls, smoothie posts and New Zealand references. It lands as kiwi emoji or fruit 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 kiwi fruit emoji
What does 🥝 mean in a text message?
A halved kiwi showing the green flesh, for fruit and breakfast. Fresh and unfussy. It is a breakfast fruit in most posts and a national nickname in a few.
Is 🥝 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are kiwi emoji, fruit emoji, 🥝 meaning, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 🥝 look different on another device?
U+1F95D 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 kiwi fruit 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 kiwi fruit emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 🥝 as emoji in Emoji 3.0, dated 2016. 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+1F95D | 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 | \1F95D | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F95D} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%A5%9D | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F95D
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Also known as
- kiwi emojifruit emoji🥝 meaning
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