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Meaning & usage
What does the Pear emoji mean?
A green pear, for fruit, autumn and orchard food.
Quiet and literal. It rarely does any work beyond naming the fruit.
How to use 🍐 naturally
Lunchbox posts, baking and fruit bowl photos.
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, Pear 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 green pear with a short stem and a single leaf, from the carrier set. The leaf is what fixes the orientation, since the fruit alone is almost symmetrical.
- Today
How its use evolved
Lunchbox posts, baking and fruit bowl photos.
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.
Perfectly ripe for about nine minutes 🍐
Poached, with far too much wine 🍐
Tree gave us more than we can eat 🍐
When to use it
Using 🍐 clearly
Lunchbox posts, baking and fruit bowl photos. It lands as pear 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 pear emoji
What does 🍐 mean in a text message?
A green pear, for fruit, autumn and orchard food. Quiet and literal. It rarely does any work beyond naming the fruit.
Is 🍐 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are pear emoji, 🍐 meaning, fruit emoji, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 🍐 look different on another device?
U+1F350 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 pear 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 pear 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+1F350 | 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 | \1F350 | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F350} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%8D%90 | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F350
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Also known as
- pear emoji🍐 meaningfruit emoji
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