Potato Emoji

Food

A brown, lumpy, oval-shaped potato with a rough, dirt-speckled surface and small sprout eyes. It is depicted as a whole, raw tuber, typical of those found in a grocery store produce aisle.

Usage Context

Frequently used to discuss cooking, heavy comfort foods, or starchy side dishes. Beyond the kitchen, it is internet slang for a low-quality camera, a slow computer, or someone feeling lethargic. It is often sent alongside 🍟 or 🥘 when discussing dinner plans or farming.

History

The potato was added to the Unicode standard in 2016 as part of Unicode 9.0. Its inclusion followed a push to diversify the vegetable options available in emoji keyboards, moving beyond the standard 🥕 or 🌽 to better represent global staple crops.

Details

Glyph

🥔

Unicode

U+1F954

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f954:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDD54;

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category Food

Subcategory food-vegetable

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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