Try Beans emoji
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Meaning & usage
What does the Beans emoji mean?
A pile of kidney beans, for beans, pulses and cooking.
Plain and homely. It is a cooking emoji first, with a small line in beans-on-toast jokes.
How to use 🫘 naturally
Recipes, chilli nights, baked beans and plant-based food.
Food and drink emoji are most often literal, but they also signal plans, cravings, celebrations and shared routines. Context is especially important when a food has a slang meaning in a particular community.
From standard to slang
The history of 🫘
- 2021
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Beans was first defined as emoji in Emoji 14.0, dated 2021. A release whose additions were quickly adopted as reactions.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
Added in 2021, drawn as two or three red kidney beans. Beans are a staple food across much of the world, and nothing on the keyboard showed them before it.
- Today
How its use evolved
Recipes, chilli nights, baked beans and plant-based food.
Dates follow Unicode’s official Emoji Versions chart. Versions before Emoji 1.0 are labelled retrospectively. See the history of emoji.
In conversation
Examples of 🫘 in messages
These examples show the emoji in complete messages, where the words make its intended tone easier to read.
Chilli for eight tonight 🫘
Beans on toast, no shame 🫘
Soaked them overnight like a pro 🫘
When to use it
Using 🫘 clearly
Recipes, chilli nights, baked beans and plant-based food. It lands as bean emoji or beans emoji when the rest of the message supports that reading, and it is the surrounding words that do the deciding — so in a sensitive, professional or cross-cultural conversation, say the thing outright as well.
Common questions
About the beans emoji
What does 🫘 mean in a text message?
A pile of kidney beans, for beans, pulses and cooking. Plain and homely. It is a cooking emoji first, with a small line in beans-on-toast jokes.
Is 🫘 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are bean emoji, beans emoji, 🫘 meaning, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 🫘 look different on another device?
U+1FAD8 identifies the emoji; the picture is a font, drawn separately by Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung. Only the artwork changes, never the character.
How do I copy and paste the beans emoji?
Use the copy button at the top of this page. 🫘 is a character, not an image, so it pastes into messages, captions and filenames as ordinary text.
When was the beans emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 🫘 as emoji in Emoji 14.0, dated 2021. Early emoji version numbers can be retrospective, so this date describes its place in the standardised emoji set rather than the first-ever appearance of the underlying symbol.
For developers
🫘 in code
Every value below is generated from the character itself, so it stays correct even where a file encoding cannot hold the emoji directly.
| Format | Value | When to use it | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+1FAD8 | The standard reference. Use it to search a character map or a spec. | |
| HTML (hex) | 🫘 | For HTML and XML. Safe in files that are not saved as UTF-8. | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🫘 | The same reference in decimal. Both render identically. | |
| CSS | \1FAD8 | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1FAD8} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%AB%98 | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1FAD8
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Also known as
- bean emojibeans emoji🫘 meaning
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