🍎 Red Apple

🍎 Red Apple is one of the fruit in Unicode's Food & Drink group. In practice it comes up around apple, diet, food and fruit. Unicode also files it under health, red and ripe, which shows how widely it is read.

🍎 works in messages, comments, captions and profile names. On SmileyZone it is filed under Food and Drink. Added in 2010 with Emoji 0.6, it displays correctly on every up-to-date system. Its code point is U+1F34E.

• A single 🍎 is often enough to set the tone.
• Fits messages about apple, diet, food and fruit.
• Often seen near 🥭 Mango, 🍏 Green Apple and 🍍 Pineapple.

The idea that the apple was the forbidden fruit is not what the Bible says. The error arose in Latin, where malum means both “apple” and “evil”.

In North America the apple is the emblem of the teacher – pupils traditionally brought one. In Norse mythology Idunn’s apples keep the gods young, and in China the apple is a Christmas gift because píngguǒ echoes píng’ān, peace.

• 🍎🥭 – Red Apple and Mango
• 🍎🍏 – Red Apple with Green Apple
• 🍎🍑 – Red Apple plus Peach
• 🍎🍌 – Red Apple and Banana
• 🍎🍋 – Red Apple with Lemon
• 🍎🍋‍🟩 – Red Apple plus Lime
• 🍎🍊 – Red Apple and Tangerine
• 🍎🫐 – Red Apple with Blueberries

Easy to mix up with 🥭 Mango, 🍏 Green Apple or 🍍 Pineapple. They sit in the same Unicode subgroup and look similar at small sizes, so it is worth checking the name before sending.