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Food & Drink

Carrot Emoji

An orange carrot with green leaves still attached.

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Meaning & usage

What does the Carrot emoji mean?

An orange carrot with green leaves still attached.

Wholesome and everyday. It belongs to cooking and shopping lists, with an occasional appearance in rabbit posts.

How to use πŸ₯• naturally

Cooking, vegetables, rabbits and eating better.

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 πŸ₯•

  1. 2016

    First defined as emoji

    According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Carrot was first defined as emoji in Emoji 3.0, dated 2016. Part of the rapid mid-decade expansion beyond the original mobile set.

  2. Before the keyboard

    Its visual roots

    A single orange carrot with its leafy top, added in 2016. The leaves are the detail that makes it read as a carrot and not as a cone at small sizes.

  3. Today

    How its use evolved

    Cooking, vegetables, rabbits and eating better.

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 πŸ₯• in messages

These examples show the emoji in complete messages, where the words make its intended tone easier to read.

  • Soup weather πŸ₯•
  • Garden gave us twelve of these πŸ₯•
  • Snacks, allegedly πŸ₯•

When to use it

Using πŸ₯• clearly

Cooking, vegetables, rabbits and eating better. It lands as carrot emoji or vegetable emoji when the rest of the message supports that reading, and it is the surrounding words that do the deciding β€” so in a sensitive, professional or cross-cultural conversation, say the thing outright as well.

Common questions

About the carrot emoji

What does πŸ₯• mean in a text message?

An orange carrot with green leaves still attached. Wholesome and everyday. It belongs to cooking and shopping lists, with an occasional appearance in rabbit posts.

Is πŸ₯• always positive?

Not always. Its usual readings are carrot emoji, vegetable emoji, πŸ₯• meaning, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.

Why does πŸ₯• look different on another device?

U+1F955 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 carrot emoji?

Use the copy button at the top of this page. πŸ₯• is a character, not an image, so it pastes into messages, captions and filenames as ordinary text.

When was the carrot emoji introduced?

Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records πŸ₯• as emoji in Emoji 3.0, dated 2016. 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

πŸ₯• 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.

Code formats for the Carrot emoji
FormatValueWhen to use itCopy
UnicodeU+1F955The 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\1F955For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value.
JavaScript\u{1F955}A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression.
URL-encoded%F0%9F%A5%95Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests.

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Emoji details

Unicode
U+1F955
Category
Food & Drink
Also known as
carrot emojivegetable emojiπŸ₯• meaning

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