Pineapple emoji

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The Pineapple emoji (🍍) (Unicode U+1F34D) was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010.

It can mean "complicated relationship status" in texting or social media.{{Cite web |date=2018-11-27 |title=What Does 🍍 Pineapple Emoji Mean? |url=https://www.dictionary.com/e/emoji/pineapple-emoji/ |access-date=2024-10-25 |website=Dictionary.com |language=en-US}}{{citation|work=Bustle|title=What Do Pineapples On Snapchat Mean?|first=Kathryn |last=Kattalia|date=December 30, 2016|url=https://www.bustle.com/p/what-do-pineapples-on-snapchat-mean-heres-what-this-fruit-~really~-symbolizes-27214}} It is also used to indicate that one is open to taking part in "swinger" activities.{{Cite web |date=2024-04-12 |title=ICYMI: There's A Super Sexy Meaning Behind the Upside-Down Pineapple |url=https://www.cosmopolitan.com/sex-love/a60459870/upside-down-pineapple-meaning/ |access-date=2025-05-11 |website=Cosmopolitan |language=en-US}}{{Cite news |last=Crisp |first=James |date=2024-08-30 |title=Why Spanish singletons are swapping dating apps for upside-down pineapples |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/08/30/upside-down-pineapples-secret-symbol-spain-mercadona-stores/ |access-date=2025-05-11 |work=The Telegraph |language=en-GB |issn=0307-1235}}

It can also be as a shorthand or code for "cannabis" or "getting high".{{cite web|title=No cannabis emoji? No problem. Here are 17 stealth emojis you can use for weed|website=greenstate.com|date=September 21, 2021|author1-first=Elissa |author1-last=Esher|author2-first=Rachelle |author2-last=Gordon|url=https://www.greenstate.com/lifestyle/no-cannabis-emoji-no-problem-here-are-11-stealth-emojis-you-can-use-for-weed/}}{{citation|first=Candy|last=Gibbs|title=New technology handout|date=March 2022|chapter=Texting Slang & #Hashtags|url=https://candygibbs.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/NEW-Technology-Handout-2022-MAR-40.pdf}} The usage may be a reference to the stoner film Pineapple Express.{{citation|work=Michigan Green State|title=Where's the high emoji|page=23|date=Summer 2022|agency=Hearst Network|url=https://issuu.com/hearstmidwest/docs/migreenstate-0820}}

One critic found the pineapple emoji distasteful as an expression of British imperialism, and attendant "codes of racism and classism".{{citation|publisher=Jane Austen Society of North America|title=Sanditon and the Pineapple Emoji Craze: Why This Jane Austen Fan Is Offended, and Why You Should Be Too!|first=Damianne Candice |last=Scott|volume=41|number=2|date=Summer 2021|url=https://jasna.org/publications-2/persuasions-online/volume-41-no-2/scott/|quote=[H]ow can I, in good conscience, separate the sweet majesty of the pineapple or its innocent emoji from the horrors that brought it to Regency England in the first place? I cannot. }}