The lemon emoji is the internet’s tart little troublemaker—bright, zesty, and perfect for serving a sour reaction with a smile. People drop 🍋 when a take is extra tart, a joke lands a bit acidic, or they’re “turning lemons into lemonade” about a setback. It also doubles as shorthand for a dud product—“this car is a lemon”—or a playful compliment like “you’re my main squeeze.” In foodie chats, it screams fresh: lemon zest, tea with lemon when you’re sick, wedges in sparkling water, and that “I’m about to clean the whole kitchen with citrus” energy.
On Apple devices, 🍋 shows up as a whole, photo-real lemon: vivid yellow, slightly dimpled rind, glossy highlight, and a knobby nub at one end—angled in a three-quarter view with soft shading and no leaf attached. It’s instantly recognizable as the pucker-up fruit you’d slice right over grilled fish or a stack of pancakes. On social feeds, it fuels summer aesthetics (lemonade stands, Mediterranean vibes) and gets memed in slot-machine references, sour-face jokes, and Beyoncé “Lemonade” nods. Use it sarcastically to squeeze someone’s spicy opinion, flirtatiously for a punny “squeeze,” or dramatically when life hands you… well, you know.
A lemon is a fruit that is sour to the taste. Combined with a little sugar, these yellow fruit really shine. Lemons are used in cooking, especially baking of yummy desserts. Lemons are also used in drinks, such as cocktails and of course lemonade. Kids love to make lemonade in the summer and sell it to people in need of a drink at a lemonade stand. The recipe for lemonade is very simple - lemons, water, and squeezed lemons.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 197 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 | :lemon: |
| Keywords | Lemon, Yellow, Citrus |
| Unicode Category | Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs |
| Unicode Range | 1F300–1F5FF |
| Unicode Subcategory | Fruit and Vegetable Symbols |
| 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) | 1f34b |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F34B |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127819 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x8D 0x8B |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 8D 8B |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 215 213 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDF4B |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cdf4b |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 57163 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F34B |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F34B |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127819 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F34B" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x8d\x8b" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDF4B" |
