🍈Melon Emoji
Generally, the melon emoji just means a melon. People use it to refer to the fruit itself.
The 🍈 emoji is a melon.
- Unicode
- U+1F348
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :melon:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🍈 Melon emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 2 of them.
Melon emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the melon as 9 vendors ship it.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Facebook, Messenger
Open-source, design systems
Galaxy, One UI
Windows, Teams, Fluent
WhatsApp on Android
Slack, Discord themes
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Melon emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :melon:.
In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F348.
How to type the 🍈 Melon emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
Melon emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 9. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Melon emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around melon for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with 🍈, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
What 🍈 means from a girl or a guy
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
What 🍈 means in other countries
A plain fruit emoji, though in Japan a whole melon is a genuinely upscale gift item.
Premium melons are expensive gift-shop purchases for special occasions, not everyday grocery fruit.
Just an ordinary fruit with no special weight attached.
Before you send it: Fine in any food context; no need to avoid it anywhere.
What 🍈 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the melon lands changes how it is taken.
Emojis similar to the Melon emoji
Same family (food-fruit) — often confused with melon or used alongside it.
Lime
🍌Banana
🍉Watermelon
🍇Grapes
🍓Strawberry
🫐Blueberries
🍒Cherries
Collections 🍈 belongs to — every one of them is a different way people go looking for it:
🍈 vs 🍉 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Melon
Code: U+1F348 · added 2010
Shortcode: :melon:
Generally, the melon emoji just means a melon.
Unicode name: Watermelon
Code: U+1F349 · added 2010
Shortcode: :watermelon:
Generally, the 🍉 emoji just means watermelon.
Where the 🍈 Melon emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time — U+1F348 never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
🍈 existed there as
KDDI au EB32.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Melon was approved as U+1F348 and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 🍈 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.