Strawberry Emoji

A bright red strawberry with green leaves on top. 🍓 is one of the most versatile fruit emojis: sweet, flirty, aesthetic, and straightforwardly about the fruit in roughly equal measure.

Sweet and cute. The most common usage. 🍓 decorates posts about desserts, smoothies, and anything aesthetically sweet. "Strawberry season 🍓" or "Farmers market haul 🍓" is literal.

Romantic and flirty. Strawberries have been associated with Venus, the goddess of love, since ancient Rome because of their heart shape and red color. In texting, 🍓 carries a sensual undertone, especially paired with chocolate (🍓🍫) or champagne (🍓🍾).

Strawberry girl aesthetic. In Gen Z culture, 🍓 is part of the cottagecore-adjacent "strawberry girl" trend: soft, feminine, vintage vibes. The Lirika Matoshi strawberry dress went viral on TikTok in 2020 and cemented this lane.

Botanical weirdness. A strawberry isn't a berry. It's an "aggregate accessory fruit." The red part is a swollen receptacle. The real fruits are the tiny seed-like achenes on the outside, each containing a single seed.

Approved in Unicode 6.0 (2010) as U+1F353U+1F353 STRAWBERRY.

🍓 lives across multiple social media niches. Food accounts use it literally. Fashion accounts use it aesthetically (strawberry dresses, strawberry-print everything). Dating-adjacent posts use it flirtatiously. The emoji is chameleon-like: innocent in one context, suggestive in another.

On TikTok, "strawberry girl summer" and cottagecore aesthetics keep 🍓 in heavy rotation. Instagram bios featuring 🍓 signal a specific soft, feminine, nature-loving personality.

On Snapchat, 🍓 is part of the fruit emoji dating code, indicating difficulty finding the right partner.

The modern strawberry is an accidental hybrid. Wild woodland strawberries (Fragaria vesca) had been eaten across Europe for centuries, but they were tiny. Everything changed in the 1700s when two American species met in a French garden.

In the 1600s, Jacques Cartier brought the Virginia strawberry (Fragaria virginiana), valued for its fragrance, from North America to France. Then in 1714, French spy and botanist Amedee-Francois Frezier brought Fragaria chiloensis back from Chile, prized for its large fruit. When both species were planted near each other in Brittany in the 1750s, they naturally hybridized. The result combined Chile's size with Virginia's sweetness. The modern garden strawberry was born by accident.

Botanically, the strawberry is one of the most misunderstood fruits. It's not a berry. The red part you eat is a swollen receptacle, not a fruit at all. The actual fruits are the tiny achenes on the surface that look like seeds, each containing a single real seed. Bananas are berries. Watermelons are berries. Strawberries are not.

1. 1714French spy Amedee-Francois Frezier brings Fragaria chiloensis from Chile to France. It hybridizes with the Virginia strawberry in Brittany around 1750, creating the modern garden strawberry.
2. 2010Approved in Unicode 6.0 as U+1F353 STRAWBERRY. Added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.
3. 2020The Lirika Matoshi strawberry dress goes viral on TikTok, cementing 🍓 as a fashion and aesthetic symbol.↗
4. 2023"Strawberry girl makeup" trend: pink blush on cheeks and nose, freckles, dewy finish. Hailey Bieber's Rhode brand amplifies it, 🍓 bios spike.
5. 2025Strawberry matcha lattes and Korean-style strawberry milk dominate cafe TikTok. 🍓 + 🥛 becomes a recurring food-content combo.

• 🍓
  38 tons of strawberries served per fortnight: Roughly 190,000 portions over 13 days. The strawberries are picked at dawn at [Hugh Lowe Farms in Kent](https://www.rhs.org.uk/garden-inspiration/seasonal/wimbledon-and-the-strawberry) and delivered to Wimbledon the same day, graded for size and appearance before reaching the plate.
• 🥛
  7,000 litres of cream: About 36 millilitres per portion. The cream is unsweetened double cream; sugar is added by the diner.
• 💷
  £2.50 per bowl, frozen for 13+ years: The All England Lawn Tennis Club held the price flat at £2.50 from 2010 through 2023 before raising it to £2.70 in 2024. The tradition of holding the price below market is as much a fixture as the dessert itself.
• 🎾
  1877: the founding year: The first Championship had 200 spectators watching gentlemen's singles. Strawberries were a class signifier that summer, in season, and Victorian garden-party staples. The tradition stuck and the price stayed accessible enough that everyone in the queue bought a bowl.

• •Strawberries have been associated with Venus, the goddess of love since ancient Rome because of their heart shape and red color.
• •A strawberry isn't a berry. It's an "aggregate accessory fruit." The red part is a swollen receptacle. The real fruits are the tiny achenes on the surface. Bananas are berries. Strawberries are not.
• •The modern garden strawberry was born by accident in 1750s France when a Chilean species (large fruit) and a Virginia species (sweet flavor) hybridized naturally in a Brittany garden.
• •French spy Amedee-Francois Frezier brought the Chilean strawberry to France in 1714. His surname, Frezier, comes from the French word for strawberry (fraise). A man named "Strawberry" brought us the strawberry.
• •The Lirika Matoshi strawberry dress went viral on TikTok in 2020, spawning the "strawberry girl" aesthetic and making 🍓 a fashion symbol.
• •On Snapchat, 🍓 is part of a fruit emoji dating code indicating difficulty finding the right partner.
• •In Japan, strawberry shortcake (ichigo no shortcake) is the traditional Christmas cake, making 🍓 a winter holiday emoji in Japanese culture, not just a summer one.
• •An average strawberry has about 200 achenes on its surface. Each one is a true fruit containing a single seed. What you think of as the fruit is actually a receptacle.
• •Japan's Bijin-hime strawberry sold for $4,395 per fruit in 2015, making it one of the most expensive strawberries ever sold. They're grown individually in specialized greenhouses with controlled temperature and humidity.
• •The strawberry tree (Arbutus unedo) isn't actually a strawberry. It's a Mediterranean shrub whose red fruits look similar but are unrelated. Irish folklore calls them "cain apples" and they're used to make the liqueur medronho in Portugal.
• •John Lennon wrote "Strawberry Fields Forever" about Strawberry Field, a Salvation Army children's home in Liverpool near his childhood home at Menlove Avenue. He played in the gardens as a child.

• •Strawberry Fields Forever (The Beatles, 1967): John Lennon's surrealist ballad, written about a Salvation Army children's home near his childhood home in Liverpool. Strawberry Field (singular) became a Lennon pilgrimage site; New York's Central Park memorial borrows the name.
• •Strawberry Shortcake (1979-): The American Greetings character franchise, revived multiple times across TV, film, and toys. The character's strawberry-themed world is a core reference for anyone under 45 thinking about 🍓.
• •The Lirika Matoshi Strawberry Dress (2020): The $490 tulle dress that became a cultural moment during lockdown. TikTok artists drew themselves in it, Taylor Swift and Ariana Grande wore it, cottagecore's peak visual.
• •Strawberry Saiko (Japan): The "strawberry hunting" winter tourism pilgrimage to farms where visitors eat fresh strawberries on the vine. Amaou, Skyberry, Migaki-ichigo are the prestige varieties, some sold individually in luxury packaging for $10-30 per berry.
• •Snoop Dogg's "Sensual Seduction": 2007 Neptunes-produced single. The strawberry-and-champagne aesthetic of the video helped lock 🍓 into R&B bedroom iconography for the following decade.

• 🏠
  1936: Salvation Army home opens: Strawberry Field, on Beaconsfield Road in Woolton, Liverpool. Run for orphans and at-risk children for nearly 70 years.
• 🎸
  1966-67: Lennon writes and records the song: Written in Almería, Spain. Recorded across 26 takes between November and December 1966. Released as a double-A side with 'Penny Lane' on February 13, 1967.
• 🏙️
  1985: Central Park memorial dedicated: Yoko Ono donated $1 million for the [2.5-acre tear-drop garden](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strawberry_Fields_(memorial)) in Central Park, opposite the Dakota where Lennon was killed in 1980. Country contributions paid for the rest.
• 🚪
  2005: Liverpool home closes: The Salvation Army shut down operations after nearly 70 years. The site sat largely empty until 2019 when the redbrick gates that featured on so much Beatles fan-pilgrimage photography were restored as a visitor centre.