Is 🫝 officially approved?

Not yet. It's part of the Emoji 18.0 draft candidate set, targeted for September 2026. Unicode can still rename, redesign, or reject it.

What does 🫝 look like without font support?

A whole green pickle (dill cucumber), typically shown slightly curved with visible textured bumps on the skin, often accompanied by a detached slice showing the cross-section and seeds.

Will 🫝 get used for pickleball?

Almost certainly, yes. Pickleball has no dedicated emoji, and its name begs for the pickle-plus-paddle combo. Expect 🫝🏓 to be the default pickleball emoji pairing within weeks of 🫝 shipping.

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Pickle Emoji

Food & DrinkU+1FADD:pickle:

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⚠️Draft emoji (Unicode 18.0)

This emoji is part of the Unicode 18.0 draft. The Unicode Technical Committee can still rename it, redesign it, or reject it entirely before the spec is finalized (target release: September 2026 (targeted)).

📱If you see a blank box, a question mark, or a plain rectangle instead of the emoji, your device font hasn't picked it up yet. Apple, Google, Samsung, and Microsoft usually ship support within 6 to 18 months of a Unicode release. You can still copy and paste the character; it'll render correctly on any up-to-date device.

The codepoint U+1FADD was originally reserved for "Apple Core" before Unicode reassigned the slot to Pickle during the Emoji 18.0 candidate round. The Apple Core proposal was folded into other food concepts.

Unicode 18.0 spec Proposal L2/09-379

About Pickle 🫝

Pickle () is part of the Food & Drink group in Unicode. Added in Unicode E18.0. Type on GitHub and Slack to use it. Click copy above to grab it, paste it anywhere.

Works in iMessage, WhatsApp, Discord, Slack, Instagram, Twitter, Gmail, and every app that supports Unicode.

Often associated with pickle, gherkin, cucumber, and 3 more keywords.

Scroll down for the full story: meaning, trends, combos, and more.

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How it looks

What does it mean?

🫝 Pickle is a whole pickled cucumber, typically shown green and glossy, sometimes with a single slice separated so you can see the cross-section. It covers dill pickles (the default Western read), gherkins, cornichons, kosher half-sours, and the broad category of pickled cucurbits. It doesn't cover 🥒 Cucumber (fresh) or 🫑 Bell Pepper (pickled or otherwise).

The culinary gap is obvious: Unicode has 🥒, 🌶️, 🥬, 🥗, 🥪, 🍔, but no way to represent the pickle that goes on most of them. The emoji also inherits a pile of cultural baggage: Ben Green's dill pickle potato chips are an industry; the "pickle-balling" craze made pickles adjacent to pickleball; and "pickle" as slang for an awkward situation ("in a pickle") has been in English since the 1500s.

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Pickle vs cucumber: quick decoder

	🥒 Cucumber	🫝 Pickle
State	Fresh, raw	Brined/fermented
Context	Salads, skincare, sushi	Burgers, sandwiches, deli
Metaphor	"Cool as a cucumber"	"In a pickle"
Color	Bright green	Deeper, olive green
Texture	Smooth skin	Textured, bumpy

Emoji combos

Origin story

The path to 🫝 is unusually convoluted. The codepoint was originally allocated to an "Apple Core" emoji proposal. That concept got reworked and the slot sat empty for years. In 2025, Unicode reassigned to Pickle as part of the Emoji 18.0 candidate set. The candidate set is still draft; the final design and name can still change.

Often confused with

🥒 is a fresh cucumber. 🫝 is a pickled (brined) cucumber. Different flavor, different emoji.

🥒 Cucumber

🥒 is a fresh cucumber. 🫝 is a pickled (brined) cucumber. Different flavor, different emoji.

🫑 is a bell pepper, typically green. Pickles and bell peppers both go in brine, but 🫝 is specifically a cucumber.

🫑 Bell Pepper

🫑 is a bell pepper, typically green. Pickles and bell peppers both go in brine, but 🫝 is specifically a cucumber.

Why is there both a cucumber and a pickle emoji?

Fresh cucumbers and pickled cucumbers have different culinary roles, different visual cues, and different metaphors attached. Pickles show up on burgers, sandwiches, and deli platters. Cucumbers show up in salads and skincare jokes. Unicode has historically split food emoji along preparation lines (🥖 baguette vs 🥐 croissant, 🍚 rice vs 🍙 onigiri).

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