What 🍏 means
Usually just a green apple. It fits grocery lists, lunch plans, and sour-apple sweets or drinks. If the fruit reading makes no sense in context, ask the sender what they meant.
Artwork differs between platforms in shade, leaf, and stem, but every version is the same emoji.
Don't confuse it with
1Combination ideas
3Suggestion: an apple-and-salad lunch.
Suggestion: comparing green and red apples.
Suggestion: sour-apple candy.
Worth knowing
- The Granny Smith, a well-known green apple, grew from a chance seedling in Maria Ann Smith's orchard at Eastwood, near Sydney, Australia, in the 1860s, and carries her nickname.
Questions people ask
1Can I send 🍏 alone?
Yes, if you are already talking about apples. Otherwise, add a few words so your recipient is not left guessing.
How to type 🍏
Windows
Win+.Open the emoji picker and search “green apple”.
macOS
Control+Command+Spaceopens the character viewer.
iOS / Android
Emoji keyboard → search “green apple”.
Chat apps
:green_apple:the common shortcode; support varies by platform.HTML
🍏Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🍏
HTML hex
🍏
CSS content
content: "\1F34F";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%8D%8F
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On screen
1
Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.