Egg Emoji
Food
A smooth, oval-shaped white egg. It depicts a standard bird egg, typically associated with chicken eggs found in a kitchen or grocery store.
Usage Context
Frequently used to represent breakfast foods, baking, or the act of cooking. Beyond the kitchen, it is commonly sent during the spring season to reference Easter traditions or, in gaming culture, to describe a hidden feature or 'easter egg' discovered in software. It is often paired with š³ or š„ to signal a morning meal.
History
Added to the Unicode standard in 2016, this emoji was part of a push to expand the food category to include more basic staples of the human diet. It gained quick popularity as a way to denote fragility, potential, or the literal hiding of secrets in online discussions.
Details
Glyph
š„
Unicode
U+1F95A
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f95a:
HTML Entity
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Specifications
Vendor Google
Category Food
Subcategory food-prepared
Unicode Version 6.0
Emoji Version 1.0
License CC-BY 4.0
Google Noto License
Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0
Noto Color Emoji graphics are copyrighted by Google Inc. and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Font files may also be subject to the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.
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