Melon Emoji

Food

A pale green, spherical melon with a netted, textured rind and a small stem attached at the top. It is typically depicted as a cross-section of a honeydew or cantaloupe, showing its rounded shape.

Usage Context

Used to talk about healthy snacks, summer picnics, or fruit salads. It is frequently sent alongside other fresh produce like 🍓 or 🍎 when discussing diet, cooking, or grocery shopping.

History

Added in 2010 as part of Unicode 6.0, this emoji was part of a major expansion of food-related characters intended to bring variety to Japanese mobile messaging platforms, which were increasingly incorporating global produce items into their icon sets.

Details

Glyph

🍈

Unicode

U+1F348

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f348:

HTML Entity

&#xD83C;&#xDF48;

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category Food

Subcategory food-fruit

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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