Lime went years without its own emoji — people just reused the yellow lemon and hoped for the best. The lime emoji fixes that: it's built by combining the lemon emoji with a green square, a clever workaround that shipped in 2023, and it's now the default for margaritas, mojitos, guacamole, and anything that's lime and definitely not lemon.
What 🍋🟩 means
A bright green lime, usually drawn whole with a juicy cut half. The 🍋🟩 Lime emoji (Emoji 15.1, September 2023) ended one of the produce aisle's longest-running injustices — for years, lime lovers had to point at a yellow 🍋 and hope context did the rest.
Under the hood it's the lemon emoji fused with a green square, which is exactly the kind of pragmatic magic ZWJ sequences exist for.
How and when to use it
- Cocktails and cooking, obviously: "Taco night: fresh 🍋🟩 on everything or don't bother."
- Margarita, mojito, and key-lime-pie content finally has its garnish: "Sunday = 🍋🟩🍹 by the pool."
- Also works for all things zesty and green — matcha-adjacent aesthetics included.
The lowdown
- Category
- Food & Drink › food-fruit
- Codepoints
U+1F34B U+200D U+1F7E9- Emoji version
- Emoji 15.1
- Shortcodes
:lime:Slack · Discord- Keywords
- acidity, citrus, cocktail, fruit, garnish, key, lime, margarita, mojito, refreshing, salsa, sour, tangy, tequila, tropical, zest
- How it's built
- Several emojis fused by an invisible joiner — a ZWJ sequence.
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 — 🍋🟩 Lime or 1️⃣ Keycap: 1?
Runs with a crowd
🍋🟩 keeps company in green emojis — tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.