🥬Leafy Green Emoji
Generally, the 🥬 emoji just means “lettuce” or “leafy greens. ” It’s often used to represent a salad or a healthy meal.
The 🥬 emoji represents leafy greens like lettuce, spinach, or kale.
- Unicode
- U+1F96C
- Released
- 2018
- Shortcode
- :leafy_green:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🥬 Leafy Green emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
People also look for it as lettuce emoji, salad emoji.
Leafy Green emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the leafy green has been drawn in 3 ways.
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.
Leafy Green 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 :leafy_green:.
In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the leafy green, code point U+1F96C.
How to type the 🥬 Leafy Green emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F96C when there is no key at all.
Leafy Green 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
Leafy Green emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around leafy green 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 neutral healthy-eating emoji with no cultural split anywhere.
Stands in for salads, greens, or “eating clean.”
Just a vegetable, no other meaning attached.
Before you send it: Use it wherever a plain healthy-food note fits.
What 🥬 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
The character is the same everywhere, but the artwork and the reading of it change from app to app.
Emojis similar to the Leafy Green emoji
Same family (food-vegetable) — often confused with leafy green or used alongside it.
Root Vegetable
🥒Cucumber
🌶Hot Pepper
🫑Bell Pepper
🌽Ear of Corn
🥕Carrot
🧄Garlic
🧅Onion
Collections 🥬 belongs to — every one of them is a different way people go looking for it:
Where the 🥬 Leafy Green emoji came from
Approved as part of Emoji 11.0, the leafy green has been on phones for years now — counting from its release, 8.
Same character every time — U+1F96C 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.
Leafy Green was approved as U+1F96C and shipped in Emoji 11.0 (2018). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
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.