Two glossy red cherries joined by a stem make up the cherries emoji, a cheerful summer-fruit symbol for cherry season, cocktails, and desserts. It doubles as a classic slot-machine icon for luck and jackpots, and it's also an old, slightly cheeky euphemism for virginity, as in 'popping the cherry.'
What 🍒 means
A pair of red cherries; two round deep-red berries hanging with two slightly long stalks that are joined to a green leaf. The cherries in this emoji have a slight glazy finish on top of them.
The 🍒 Cherries emoji signifies taste, beauty, love, and even the season of Christmas. Besides, in the world of art, cherries also suggest sensuality, eroticism, lust, femininity, and seduction too.
How and when to use it
- If you're texting something nice or you're being sarcastic, you can use 🍒 indicating a "cherry on top". Like, "So, guess what, besides PMS, anxiety, my boss yelling at me and a huge fight with mom, my douche of a boyfriend BREAKS UP WITH ME. A cherry on top ain't it? 🍒".
- You can also use 🍒 while posting Christmassy stuff; it could be a special Christmas recipe, a picture that seems Christmassy, a picture of your Christmas table, anything related to the festival.
- Speaking in slang terms 🍒 refers to virginity (which, thanks to patriarchy, somehow only applies to women 🙂). So, if you're telling your buddies that you lost it, or if you're reminiscing the memory with your besties, then you can use this emoji in that "pop the cherry" context.
- Since cherries have a close connection to eroticism, you can use 🍒 while posting or reposting anything seductive; it can be a picture of yourself, or with someone else or even boudoir photography.
Other Names
- 🍒 Red Cherries
- 🍒 Two Cherries
- 🍒 Bing Cherry
- 🍒 Rainier Cherry
- 🍒 Plums
- 🍒 Cherry Plum
- 🍒 Prunus
- 🍒 A Pair of Red Cherries
🍒 in real conversations
What does 🍒 mean from a girl?
A pair, usually romantic — two cherries on one stem reads as 'we're a match' or a cute, flirty way to reference a couple. It's also just a sweet, aesthetic emoji with zero deeper meaning attached half the time.
What does 🍒 mean in texting?
Cute and a little flirty. It pairs naturally with couple content — 'me and you 🍒' — but shows up just as often decorating a summery selfie or a fruit-forward aesthetic with no romance implied.
Is 🍒 flirty or just decorative?
Both, and only the caption tells you which. Next to a couple photo or a crush's name it reads flirty; on its own in a bio or summer post it's simply aesthetic, no subtext required.
The lowdown
- Category
- Food & Drink › food-fruit
- Codepoints
U+1F352- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.6
- Shortcodes
:cherries:- Keywords
- berries, cherries, cherry, fruit, red
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.
Pairs well with
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⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🍒 Cherries or 👰♂️ Man with Veil?
Runs with a crowd
🍒 keeps company in aesthetic emojis and food emojis and red emojis — tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.