Eggplant Emoji

Food

A deep purple eggplant with a green stem, depicted in a stout, oblong shape. While it is botanically a nightshade, its form has become one of the most recognizable icons in digital communication.

Usage Context

Though intended as a simple produce item for recipes or grocery lists, it is almost exclusively used in modern messaging to represent sexual innuendo. It is frequently sent alongside the peach emoji to signal flirtatious intent or explicit conversation.

History

Included in the initial wave of Japanese emoji sets, the eggplant was originally meant to represent a standard food item. Its shift into a ubiquitous piece of internet slang took hold in the early 2010s, eventually forcing platforms like Instagram to temporarily restrict its use in search and hashtag functions to curb inappropriate content.

Details

Glyph

🍆

Unicode

U+1F346

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f346:

HTML Entity

&#xD83C;&#xDF46;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category Food

Subcategory food-vegetable

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License Apache-2.0 / OFL-1.1

Google Noto License

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