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Meaning & usage
What does the Broccoli emoji mean?
A head of broccoli, for vegetables, cooking and eating properly.
Wholesome and slightly worthy. It carries a note of virtue that other vegetables avoid.
How to use 🥦 naturally
Meal photos, shopping lists and jokes about children refusing dinner.
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 🥦
- 2017
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Broccoli was first defined as emoji in Emoji 5.0, dated 2017. One of the steady annual widenings of the vocabulary.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
Added in 2017 as a single head with a thick stalk and textured crown. The texture is stippled rather than drawn floret by floret, which keeps it green at small sizes.
- Today
How its use evolved
Meal photos, shopping lists and jokes about children refusing dinner.
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.
Roasted with far too much garlic 🥦
Trying to eat better this month 🥦
She has negotiated it down to two florets 🥦
When to use it
Using 🥦 clearly
Meal photos, shopping lists and jokes about children refusing dinner. It lands as broccoli emoji or vegetable 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 broccoli emoji
What does 🥦 mean in a text message?
A head of broccoli, for vegetables, cooking and eating properly. Wholesome and slightly worthy. It carries a note of virtue that other vegetables avoid.
Is 🥦 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are broccoli emoji, vegetable emoji, 🥦 meaning, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 🥦 look different on another device?
U+1F966 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 broccoli 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 broccoli emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 🥦 as emoji in Emoji 5.0, dated 2017. 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+1F966 | 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 | \1F966 | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F966} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%A5%A6 | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F966
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Also known as
- broccoli emojivegetable emoji🥦 meaning
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