Lemon Emoji
A lemon — freshness and cooking, and in idiom something that turned out faulty.
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Meaning & usage
What does the Lemon emoji mean?
A lemon — freshness and cooking, and in idiom something that turned out faulty.
Fresh and mostly literal. The idiom about a faulty purchase exists but is rarely the intended meaning online.
How to use 🍋 naturally
Recipes, summer drinks and bright yellow aesthetics.
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 🍋
- 2015
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Lemon was first defined as emoji in Emoji 1.0, dated 2015. The first release where Unicode versioned the emoji set as a standard in its own right.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
A whole lemon with a leaf. It is used for sourness and for the sense of something defective, the second of which is purely English-language.
- Today
How its use evolved
Recipes, summer drinks and bright yellow aesthetics.
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.
Whole thing needs more lemon 🍋
Iced tea weather 🍋
Yellow everything this summer 🍋
When to use it
Using 🍋 clearly
Recipes, summer drinks and bright yellow aesthetics. It lands as lemon emoji meaning or 🍋 meaning 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 lemon emoji
What does 🍋 mean in a text message?
A lemon — freshness and cooking, and in idiom something that turned out faulty. Fresh and mostly literal. The idiom about a faulty purchase exists but is rarely the intended meaning online.
Is 🍋 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are lemon emoji meaning, 🍋 meaning, lemon emoji, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 🍋 look different on another device?
U+1F34B 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 lemon 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 lemon emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 🍋 as emoji in Emoji 1.0, dated 2015. 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+1F34B | 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 | \1F34B | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F34B} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%8D%8B | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F34B
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Also known as
- lemon emoji meaning🍋 meaninglemon emoji
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