The watermelon emoji 🍉 is the internet’s default setting for summer: bright, juicy, and low-key sticky. On Apple/iOS, it’s a glossy triangular wedge with ruby-red flesh, a neat sprinkle of black seeds, a pale white pith line, and a deep-green striped rind, angled slightly to the right like it’s posing for a picnic glam shot. People drop it to signal cookout invites, beach days, smoothie bowl flexes, or just that “hydration is a personality trait” mood. It also tags along with “Watermelon Sugar” references or any post that screams sun, playlists, and paper plates.
Online, 🍉 can mean “juicy” in every sense—pair it with the droplets emoji to spill tea, or with the eyes emoji when you’re here for drama. In Chinese internet slang, “chi gua” (eating melons) = being a popcorn-munching onlooker, so this wedge often captions gossip scrolls and messy comment sections. It shows up in meme-land via the rubber band watermelon challenge, seed-spitting contests, and Fruit Ninja nostalgia. Aesthetically, it’s shorthand for fresh, pink-green color palettes, cottagecore picnics, and that “this photo smells like SPF 50” energy.
Flirt mode: some people use 🍉 as a cheeky nod to “melons,” or to compliment a bold summer fit—add fire or sun for Hot Girl Summer vibes. It can be ironic too: posting a stale desk lunch plus a single watermelon cube and pretending life’s a beach. Whether you’re hyping a farmers’ market haul or side-eyeing the latest influencer saga, this slice says sweet, refreshing, and a little bit extra.
Definition
A very large fruit that grows on a vine and is full of water. A summer picnic isn't complete without a watermelon. As counterintuitive as it is, eating watermelon is supposed to help with water retention in humans. People used to sit on their patio on a hot summer day and compete to see who could spit the watermelon seeds the furthest. However, this tradition is dying out due to science and the creation of the seedless watermelon. Nothing to spit, but undoubtedly easier to eat. Many fruit candies come in watermelon flavor.
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Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.
This emoji was part of the proprietary / non-standardized emoji set first introduced by Japanese carriers like Softbank. These emojis became part of the Apple iPhone starting in iOS 2.2 as an unlockable feature on handsets sold in English speaking countries.
In iOS 5 / OSX 10.7, the underlying code that the Apple OS generates for this emoji was changed.
Emoji General Information
Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank)
141 of 2393
Apple/iOS Picture
Google Android Picture
Google Hangouts Picture
Twitter.com Picture
LG Emoji Picture
Samsung Emoji Picture
Phantom Open Emoji Picture
Not created yet
ASCII Conversion
"Short Code" Name
:watermelon:
Keywords
Melon, Watermelon, Summer, Fruit, Large
Unicode Category Information
Unicode Category
Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
Unicode Range
1F300–1F5FF
Unicode Subcategory
Fruit and Vegetable Symbols
Editorial Comment
Brightly colored quarter of a watermelon slice. Looks very tasty. emoji old name: Watermelon Slice
Proposed Unicode Information & Notes
Unicode Category
Nature
Unicode Subcategory
Fruit Symbols
Names & Annotations
WATERMELON
Symbol Information
U+1F349 proposed
Proposal Identifier
e-054
Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes
DoCoMo
[スイカ]
KDDI
#238 スイカ 「suika」 U+E4CD SJIS-F6A6 JIS-7628
Softbank
#193 #old342 スイカ 「suika」 U+E348 SJIS-F9E8
Emoji Character Encoding Data
Emoji Code Version
iOS 5 - Current
UTF-8 Unicode Character(s)
🍉
UTF-8 Character Count
1
Character(s) In Input
AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS)
🍉
Decimal HTML Entity
🍉
Hexadecimal HTML Entity
🍉
Hex Code Point(s)
1f349
Formal Unicode Notation
U+1F349
Decimal Code Point(s)
127817
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xF0 0x9F 0x8D 0x89
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
F0 9F 8D 89
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
360 237 215 211
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xD83C 0xDF49
UTF-16 Hex
d83cdf49
UTF-16 Dec
55356 57161
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0001F349
UTF-32 Hex
01F349
UTF-32 Dec
127817
Python Src
u"\U0001F349"
PHP Src
"\xf0\x9f\x8d\x89"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uD83C\uDF49"
Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)
