🍉Watermelon Emoji
Generally, the 🍉 emoji just means watermelon. People use it to express a love of the fruit or to talk about summer-related things.
The 🍉 emoji represents a watermelon.
- Unicode
- U+1F349
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :watermelon:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🍉 Watermelon emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 1.
Watermelon emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F349 — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your watermelon looks like to the person on the other side.
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.
Watermelon emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :watermelon:.
In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the watermelon, code point U+1F349.
How to type the 🍉 Watermelon emoji
No picker to hand? The watermelon can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
Watermelon emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the watermelon as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Watermelon emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around watermelon 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
In the US it carries a decades-old racist trope; on social media since 2021 it’s also shorthand for Palestinian solidarity.
Historically used in racist caricatures of Black Americans; still a loaded image in that context.
Its colors mirror the Palestinian flag, so it’s used to show solidarity where the flag itself is restricted.
Outside those two contexts it reads as a normal summer-fruit emoji.
Before you send it: Skip it in political posts unless that’s the point; fine in a plain “summer snacks” message.
What 🍉 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F349, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
Emojis similar to the Watermelon emoji
Same family (food-fruit) — often confused with watermelon or used alongside it.
Lime
🍌Banana
🍇Grapes
🍓Strawberry
🫐Blueberries
🍈Melon
🍒Cherries
Collections 🍉 belongs to — every one of them is a different way people go looking for it:
Where the 🍉 Watermelon 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+1F349 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 E4CD, SoftBank E348.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Watermelon was approved as U+1F349 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.