Pineapple Emoji
A whole pineapple, for tropical fruit, hospitality and the pizza argument.
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Meaning & usage
What does the Pineapple emoji mean?
A whole pineapple, for tropical fruit, hospitality and the pizza argument.
Friendly and a bit contentious. It has been a symbol of welcome for centuries and a pizza argument for about ten years.
How to use 🍍 naturally
Holiday posts, summer drinks and the endless pineapple-on-pizza debate.
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 🍍
- 2010
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Pineapple was first defined as emoji in Emoji 0.6, dated 2010. That label is retrospective: Unicode applied it later to the early mobile core it inherited from the Japanese carriers.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
A whole pineapple with a crown of leaves and crosshatched skin, from the carrier set. The crosshatching is what reads at small sizes, long before the shape does.
- Today
How its use evolved
Holiday posts, summer drinks and the endless pineapple-on-pizza debate.
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.
On the pizza, and I stand by it 🍍
Juice on the balcony 🍍
Front door has one carved into it 🍍
When to use it
Using 🍍 clearly
Holiday posts, summer drinks and the endless pineapple-on-pizza debate. It lands as pineapple 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 pineapple emoji
What does 🍍 mean in a text message?
A whole pineapple, for tropical fruit, hospitality and the pizza argument. Friendly and a bit contentious. It has been a symbol of welcome for centuries and a pizza argument for about ten years.
Is 🍍 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are pineapple emoji, 🍍 meaning, tropical fruit emoji, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 🍍 look different on another device?
U+1F34D 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 pineapple 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 pineapple emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 🍍 as emoji in Emoji 0.6, dated 2010. 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+1F34D | 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 | \1F34D | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F34D} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%8D%8D | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F34D
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Also known as
- pineapple emoji🍍 meaningtropical fruit emoji
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