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Meaning & usage
What does the Lime emoji mean?
A green lime, added years after the lemon it was built from.
Sharp and fresh. Drinks posts use it constantly in summer.
How to use 🍋🟩 naturally
Cooking posts, drinks and anything sharp and green.
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 🍋🟩
- 2023
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Lime was first defined as emoji in Emoji 15.1, dated 2023. Almost entirely sequences, built from characters already encoded.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
Added in 2023 as the lemon joined to a green square, which is why it looks like a recoloured lemon on most platforms. People had been asking since the lemon arrived in 2010.
- Today
How its use evolved
Cooking posts, drinks and anything sharp and green.
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.
Squeezed over everything tonight 🍋🟩
Gin, tonic, and this 🍋🟩
Recipe says two, I used five 🍋🟩
When to use it
Using 🍋🟩 clearly
Cooking posts, drinks and anything sharp and green. It lands as lime emoji 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 lime emoji
What does 🍋🟩 mean in a text message?
A green lime, added years after the lemon it was built from. Sharp and fresh. Drinks posts use it constantly in summer.
Is 🍋🟩 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are lime emoji, 🍋🟩 meaning, green fruit emoji, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 🍋🟩 look different on another device?
U+1F34B U+200D U+1F7E9 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 lime 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 lime emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 🍋🟩 as emoji in Emoji 15.1, dated 2023. 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 U+200D U+1F7E9 | 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 \200D \1F7E9 | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F34B}\u{200D}\u{1F7E9} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%8D%8B%E2%80%8D%F0%9F%9F%A9 | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F34B U+200D U+1F7E9
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Also known as
- lime emoji🍋🟩 meaninggreen fruit emoji
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