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 🍳 or 🥓 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

🥚

Unicode

U+1F95A

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f95a:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDD5A;

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category Food

Subcategory food-prepared

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

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