🍋‍🟩 lime Emoji — Meaning, Copy & Paste

What Does the lime Emoji 🍋‍🟩 Mean?

Green, oval, and topped with a small leaf — the lime emoji is technically a zero-width-joiner combo of the lemon emoji plus a green square, rendered as a true lime on supporting platforms. It looks like a smaller, deeper-green version of the lemon, and platforms that don't support the combo will fall back to showing both pieces side by side. Texters finally got this emoji in 2023 after years of community advocacy — cocktail enthusiasts had been begging for a dedicated lime icon to handle margaritas, mojitos, gin tonics, and Mexican cuisine references where lime is essential.

Now bar content, taco-night posts, key-lime-pie photos, and tropical drink recipes have a proper companion to the lemon. It's also used heavily in summer drink content, coconut-water and seltzer photos, and Vitamin C health posts. Added to Unicode 15.1 in 2023, the lime emoji is one of the most-requested-and-finally-delivered additions in recent emoji history, filling a long-standing gap on the citrus shelf.