Try Egg emoji
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Meaning & usage
What does the Egg emoji mean?
A plain white egg in its shell, drawn before it becomes anything else.
Plain and literal. Its only figurative use is about things that have not started yet, which comes from the shell rather than the food.
How to use 🥚 naturally
Cooking, breakfast, Easter and anything at an early stage.
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 🥚
- 2016
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Egg was first defined as emoji in Emoji 3.0, dated 2016. Part of the rapid mid-decade expansion beyond the original mobile set.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
A plain white egg with no shading beyond the highlight. It was added in 2016, filling an odd gap: the set had cooked eggs long before it had a raw one.
- Today
How its use evolved
Cooking, breakfast, Easter and anything at an early stage.
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.
Two of these and toast 🥚
Boiling them for the hunt tomorrow 🥚
Very early days on this one 🥚
When to use it
Using 🥚 clearly
Cooking, breakfast, Easter and anything at an early stage. It lands as egg emoji or 🥚 meaning 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 egg emoji
What does 🥚 mean in a text message?
A plain white egg in its shell, drawn before it becomes anything else. Plain and literal. Its only figurative use is about things that have not started yet, which comes from the shell rather than the food.
Is 🥚 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are egg emoji, 🥚 meaning, easter egg emoji, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 🥚 look different on another device?
U+1F95A 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 egg 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 egg emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 🥚 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
🥚 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+1F95A | 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 | \1F95A | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F95A} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%A5%9A | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F95A
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Also known as
- egg emoji🥚 meaningeaster egg emoji
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When 🥚 is the right choice
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