Banana Emoji

Food

A bright yellow, peeled banana shown at a slight angle. The design features a smooth skin texture with a lighter-colored interior tip, clearly illustrating a snack that has been partially unwrapped.

Usage Context

Used to represent fruit, healthy eating, or tropical snacks. In digital slang, it is frequently employed as an innuendo, though it also appears in lighthearted contexts involving monkeys or the slapstick humor of slipping on a peel. It is often grouped with other produce items like 🍎 or 🍇.

History

The banana was added to the Unicode standard in 2010 as part of Emoji 6.0. It quickly became one of the most recognizable food icons on mobile platforms due to its frequent use in pop culture and internet memes centered around monkey characters.

Details

Glyph

🍌

Unicode

U+1F34C

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f34c:

HTML Entity

&#xD83C;&#xDF4C;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category Food

Subcategory food-fruit

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0

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