Peel intact, unmistakably curved and yellow — that's the banana emoji, before it moonlighted as the internet's favorite phallic joke. It's also a common snack and smoothie reference, and 'going bananas' has meant losing it, from excitement to anger, for decades.
What 🍌 means
Half-peeled, this banana shows the white insides on top while the yellow peel stays intact below, with two individual peeled strips hanging on either side of the fruit.
The 🍌 Banana emoji has a variety of meanings. It can refer to the fruit itself and other drinks that are made with it, or it can also have a vulgar reference to genitalia as well, given the overly and overtly sexualized world we live in today.
How and when to use it
- If you're posting a picture of your monkey (not a human monkey, an OG monkey) either chilling or gorging on a banana, you can use 🍌 in such post captions.
- You can also use 🍌 while sharing pictures a banana-based dish, drink or even salad with or without a recipe typed out in the caption or as a text message.
- It's amazing to go bananas once in a while. So, if you're sharing a picture of yourself or of your bestie acting crazy and/or silly (the happy and contagious kind of crazy and silly, yes) either as a social media story or a direct message (DM), you can use 🍌 in such contexts.
- Now, the tawdry reference attached to the fruit. For many years now, bananas have been used to refer to the male genitalia. Basing on that usage, you can bring the 🍌 emoji into related contexts.
- Use 🍌 even while posting pictures of banana plants, a banana grove, banana farming and other informative content as well.
Other Names
- 🍌 Plantain
- 🍌 Yellow Banana
- 🍌 Ripened Banana
- 🍌 Peeled Banana
- 🍌 Half-Peeled Banana
- 🍌 Go Banana
- 🍌 Curved Berry
🍌 in real conversations
What does 🍌 mean in texting?
Usually just the fruit, or 'going bananas' — losing it with excitement or frustration. 'This traffic is making me 🍌' is the mild, everyday use. It also has a well-known innuendo reading, so context matters.
What does 🍌 mean from a guy?
Mostly literal or 'going bananas' about something — a snack, a gym reference, mild chaos. Sent solo with no context, especially from someone flirting, it can carry the innuendo; sent with food talk, it's just food.
Is 🍌 always an innuendo?
No — plenty of 🍌 use is just about actual bananas or the 'going bananas' phrase for excitement. It only reads suggestively when the rest of the conversation is already flirty; otherwise it's a snack.
The lowdown
- Category
- Food & Drink › food-fruit
- Codepoints
U+1F34C- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.6
- Shortcodes
:banana:- Keywords
- banana, fruit, potassium
How it looks across platforms
Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🍌 Banana or 🌗 Last Quarter Moon?
Runs with a crowd
🍌 keeps company in food emojis and yellow emojis — tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.