Under a pink-red, rough shell a lychee is a layer of translucent white fruit, by Wikipedia. So the lychee emoji here is Strawberry for the outside, then White circle for the inside.
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Rose, canned and evergreen: one emoji each
CLDR, the list emoji search reads, has no entry for lychee under any spelling. Three words from Wikipediaβs account of the fruit lead to exactly one emoji apiece: rose, for the scent, canned, for how it is sold all year, and evergreen, for the tree.
Shell, fruit and seed
A lychee has three layers, by Wikipedia: a shell that peels away easily, the white fruit, and one dark brown seed. π΄βͺπ€ copies them in order, and {(β’)} types them out. A lychee whose seed has shriveled is called a chicken tongue.
An emperor of Tang China had lychees delivered to his capital at great expense, by Wikipedia.
Questions and answers
Is there a lychee emoji?
Not by that name. Unicodeβs emoji list, version 18.0, has no emoji named lychee, litchi or lichee. πβͺ, Strawberry then White circle, stands in for it.
Is there a lychee emoticon?
Four typed ones are here, and a drawing. {(β’)} is a lychee cut open: braces for the rough shell, brackets for the fruit, a dot for the seed. None is an emoji: each is typed key by key.
Is it spelled lychee or litchi?
Both, and lichee and lichi as well, by Wiktionary. Lychee came from the Cantonese reading of θζ, lai zi, and litchi from the Hokkien one, lΔ-chi.
What color is lychee?
Red outside and white inside. As a color name, lychee is a soft pink-red like the rind, by Wiktionary, whose color panel gives the hex code DC5349.
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Closest emoji 12
π€Brown circleU+1F7E4. For the seed: one dark brown stone in the middle, by Wikipedia. Emoji 12.0.
π₯«Canned foodU+1F96B. The only emoji filed under canned. Lychees are sold canned all year, by Wikipedia. Emoji 5.0.
πCherriesU+1F352. Another red fruit. Filed under red and fruit. Emoji 0.6.
π²Evergreen treeU+1F332. The only emoji filed under evergreen. A lychee grows on a tall evergreen tree, by Wikipedia. Emoji 1.0.
π¨π³Flag of ChinaU+1F1E8 U+1F1F3. China grows the most lychees and has grown them since at least the 11th century, by Wikipedia. Emoji 0.6.
πβͺLycheeStrawberry, then white circle.
πPineappleU+1F34D. Filed under fruit and tropical. Wiktionary calls the lychee a Chinese tropical fruit tree. Emoji 0.6.
θζLΓ¬zhΔ« in Mandarin, by Wiktionary. The Unihan database defines the first character as lichee.
licheeA third English spelling, by Wiktionary.
lichiSpanish, by Wiktionary, which also lists it as an English spelling.
litchiThe spelling of French and Italian, by Wiktionary, and of the genus, which has this one member, by Wikipedia.
vαΊ£iVietnamese, by Wiktionary. Vietnam is third in Wikipediaβs list of growers.
Lychee lines 5
fresh if lucky, canned if notFor the shop that had none.
lychee, litchi, lichee: same fruitFor the spelling question.
peel, eat, repeatFor a bowl that was full a minute ago.
red outside, white inside, mineFor the last one.
smells like a rose, gone like a shotFor the first one of the year.
Lychee combos 13
βͺβͺβͺπ₯£Bowl of peeled lycheesWhite circle, three times, then bowl with spoon.
π₯«βͺβͺCanned lycheesCanned food, then white circle, twice.
ππ βͺChicken tongueChicken, then tongue, then white circle.
π¨π³πβͺLitchi chinensisFlag: China, then strawberry, then white circle.
πβͺπ§Lychee bubble teaStrawberry, then white circle, then bubble tea.
πβͺπ§Lychee iceStrawberry, then white circle, then shaved ice.
π¨π΄Lychee redArtist palette, then red circle.
πβͺπ₯€Lychee sodaStrawberry, then white circle, then cup with straw.
π²π΄Lychee treeEvergreen tree, then red circle.
πΏπ΄π΄π΄Lychees on the branchHerb, then red circle, three times.
πβ‘οΈβͺPeeling a lycheeStrawberry, then right arrow, then white circle.
πΉβͺRose and lycheeRose, then white circle.
ππ¦πβͺSent to the capitalCrown, then package, then strawberry, then white circle.
How this list was compiled: Built on 2026-10-09 from sources read that day. The emoji, their names, code points and Emoji version numbers are from the Unicode emoji list, version 18.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/emoji/emoji-test.txt); names are the CLDR short names printed in that file. Search words are from the CLDR English annotations (https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotations/en.xml and https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotationsDerived/en.xml). Unicode has no emoji named lychee: no emoji name, no CLDR search word and no character name in UnicodeData.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt), holds lychee, litchi, lichee, lichi or longan. CLDR files rose under Rose alone, canned under Canned food alone, evergreen under Evergreen tree alone, pink under two emoji (Pink heart, Transgender flag), berry under two (Strawberry, Blueberries), tropical under seven and red under 20, Cherries among them; peel and floral lead to no emoji. That the lychee is the only member of Litchi, a genus of the soapberry family, that it is sweet and mildly tart with a floral aroma often described as rose-like, that China has grown it since at least the 11th century and is the main producer, followed by India and Vietnam, that the tree is a tall evergreen, that the shell is pink-red and rough-textured and comes away easily from a layer of translucent white flesh around one dark brown seed, that fruits with shriveled seeds are called chicken tongues and cost more, that the fruit is sold canned all year, and that an emperor of Tang China had it delivered to his capital at great expense are from Wikipedia, Lychee (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lychee, CC BY-SA 4.0). The spellings lichee, lichi and litchi, the Cantonese source of the word (and the Hokkien source of litchi, from https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/litchi), the definitions (a Chinese tropical fruit tree; a bright red, oval fruit with one stone in a fleshy white aril; a soft pink-red color, hex DC5349 in its color panel) and the Mandarin, Japanese, French, Italian, Spanish, Hindi and Vietnamese words are from Wiktionary, lychee (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lychee, CC BY-SA 4.0). The reading lΓ¬ and the definition lichee for θ are from the Unihan database, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/Unihan.zip). The typed lines, the drawings, the caption lines and the combos are this siteβs own work. Licence: own work: the selection, the combo names, the text drawings and the notes are this site's own. Emoji names, code points and search words are Unicode and CLDR data and Unihan data, used under the Unicode License v3 (https://www.unicode.org/license.txt). Facts from Wikipedia and Wiktionary are restated in this site's own words and credited in the source line.