Meaning
A vibrant, verdant apple with a smooth, polished surface and a brown stem topped with a single leaf, the green apple captures that signature tart, crisp fruit in all its glory. Its jade or lime-green coloring sets it apart from its red sibling, instantly suggesting a different flavor profile.
While it shares the health and wellness associations with the red apple, the green apple often leans into sourness, tartness, and a more sophisticated or "sour" attitude in digital culture. It's frequently used when someone's being a bit sarcastic or witty—channeling that pucker-worthy zing. On food blogs and nutrition pages, it distinguishes green apple varieties, Granny Smith apples, or tartness-forward recipes.
In some contexts, green apple references Sour Patch Kids candies or sour candy in general, making it popular in snack-related or junk-food humor posts. It also appears in smoothie bowl aesthetics, juice cleanse imagery, and plant-based diet content where the "green" aspect ties into wellness narratives.
Like the red apple, the green apple's design varies slightly between platforms, with Apple's version maintaining a glossy, realistic appearance. Both have been core to emoji fruit collections since their debut. This emoji was approved as part of Unicode Emoji 0.6 in 2010, making it nearly as old as digital emoji culture itself.
Common Uses
- • Representing tart or sour flavors
- • Discussing green smoothies or juice cleanses
- • Adding a sarcastic or witty tone
- • Highlighting Granny Smith or green apple varieties
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Did You Know?
The green apple emoji is a favorite in sour candy and sour gummy communities online, where it's used to represent everything from Sour Patch Kids to sour belts and sour candy challenges.
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Technical Reference
Platform Shortcodes
:green_apple: :green_apple: :green_apple: Developer Codes
| HTML (decimal) | 🍏 |
| HTML (hex) | 🍏 |
| CSS | \1F34F |
| JavaScript | \uD83C\uDF4F |
| Python | \U0001F34F |
| Java | \uD83C\uDF4F |
| Perl | \x{1F34F} |
| PHP / Ruby | \x{1F34F} |
| Punycode | xn--2qmn |
| URL Encoded | %F0%9F%8D%8F |
| UTF-8 Bytes | 0xF0 0x9F 0x8D 0x8F |
🍏 in 28 languages
Names sourced from Unicode CLDR and emojibase.
| Language | Name |
|---|---|
| Bengali | সবুজ আপেল |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 青苹果 |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 青蘋果 |
| Danish | grønt æble |
| Dutch | groene appel |
| English | green apple |
| English (UK) | green apple |
| Estonian | roheline õun |
| Finnish | vihreä omena |
| French | pomme verte |
| German | grüner Apfel |
| Hindi | हरा सेब, सेव, हरा, फल |
| Hungarian | zöld alma |
| Italian | mela verde |
| Japanese | 青リンゴ |
| Korean | 초록 사과 |
| Lithuanian | žalias obuolys |
| Malay | epal hijau |
| Norwegian | grønt eple |
| Polish | zielone jabłko |
| Portuguese | maçã verde |
| Russian | зеленое яблоко |
| Spanish | manzana verde |
| Spanish (Mexico) | manzana verde |
| Swedish | grönt äpple |
| Thai | แอปเปิ้ลเขียว |
| Ukrainian | зелене яблуко |
| Vietnamese | táo xanh |