Olive

The 🫒 Olive emoji was added in Unicode 13 (2020) and is drawn as a single green olive with a visible pit and small stem, shown from the side. The visual cue reads instantly as olive-coded reference, Mediterranean default, or the visible 'martini garnish' tag. By 2026 🫒 has become the go-to emoji for the olive reaction, the visible martini default, and the Mediterranean-coded reaction in close-friends and family chats.

In modern chat 🫒 does very specific work. People send it as a literal olive reference, as the visible 'martini garnish' tag, or as the Mediterranean-coded default. The single green olive with a visible pit is the visual cue that the read is olive-coded. Writers should pick 🫒 when the read is olive or visible 'Mediterranean' energy, and avoid it when the read is generic fruit — 🍎 fits better there.

🫒 lands on a friend's 'martini night' message, in a work channel where someone is signaling Mediterranean-coded energy, and in a dating-app DM where the sender is signaling 'olive on a date'. The single green olive with a visible pit anchors the read.

In close-friends chats 🫒 reads as the universal olive default and the visible 'martini garnish' tag. On X the emoji punctuates food-coded and Mediterranean-coded tweets. The emoji pairs with 🍸 for the layered olive-and-martini stack and with 🧂 for the layered olive-and-salt pair stack.

Skip 🫒 in any context where the read is generic fruit. The olive shape implies olive-coded, not generic-fruit. Avoid 🫒 in formal contexts where the food-coded read lands as out-of-place.

If a friend sends 🫒 on a food-coded message, mirror with another 🫒 or 🍸 to match the energy. The olive chain reads as solidarity.

If 🫒 lands as the Mediterranean-coded default, reply with another 🫒 or 🍷. And if you want to send 🫒 yourself, pair it with the moment so the olive-coded read is clear.