A whole pickle (gherkin), distinct from cucumber and eggplant — drafted for Emoji 18.0, expected alongside Unicode 18.0 in September 2026. Draft only: no font renders it yet. Click to copy the codepoint anyway.
Pickle (, U+1FADD) is a candidate emoji drafted for Emoji 18.0, the emoji companion to Unicode 18.0, expected to finalize in September 2026. Its codepoint has an unusual backstory: U+1FADD was originally reserved for a proposed "Apple Core" emoji in the Emoji 17.0 draft cycle; that proposal was deferred, and Unicode reassigned the freed slot to Pickle for the 18.0 cycle instead. It depicts a whole pickle (a pickled gherkin), distinct from the existing Cucumber and Eggplant emoji it's most often joked about alongside — tech-press comment sections have floated everything from "that pickle is going to break the internet" to speculation it'll "take a lot of business from" Eggplant. Because it's still a draft, no operating system, keyboard, or font currently renders it; expect a blank box or placeholder glyph until Emoji 18.0 is approved and platforms ship support.
The draft character itself — copyable today as a codepoint, even though no font can render it yet.
Already-encoded produce emoji that Pickle is most often compared to, or accused of overlapping with.
Pickle isn't the only unapproved character in this release — these are drafted alongside it, equally unrendered until September 2026's decision.
A Discord nickname stops at 32 characters, an Instagram bio at 150, a TikTok bio at 80, and X weights some characters as two. The UltraTextGen counter reads all of them at once, and counts a multi-codepoint Unicode emoji the way each platform actually bills it.
Open the character counter →Every already-encoded snack, meal, and produce emoji, copy-paste ready today.
Another Emoji 18.0 draft candidate — and the one that won the public vote.
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Another Emoji 18.0 draft candidate pair — directional pointing, not approval.
The full draft slate of 9 candidates, ranked by public vote.
A confirmed Unicode 18.0 character, publishing 16 September 2026.