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Meaning & usage
What does the Eggplant emoji mean?
A purple aubergine, and one of the best-known double meanings online.
Literal in a recipe and loaded almost everywhere else. Between people who do not know each other well, it is safer to write the word.
How to use 🍆 naturally
Cooking posts and shopping lists. Its second, suggestive meaning is well established, so read the room before sending it.
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 🍆
- 2010
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Eggplant was first defined as emoji in Emoji 0.6, dated 2010. That label is retrospective: Unicode applied it later to the early mobile core it inherited from the Japanese carriers.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
A curved purple aubergine with a green calyx, from the carrier set. Nothing about the drawing invites its second meaning: the shape did that on its own, within a few years of the emoji reaching Western phones.
- Today
How its use evolved
Cooking posts and shopping lists. Its second, suggestive meaning is well established, so read the room before sending it.
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.
Roasting one for dinner 🍆
Two of these and a tin of tomatoes 🍆
Garden gave us four this week 🍆
When to use it
Using 🍆 clearly
Cooking posts and shopping lists. Its second, suggestive meaning is well established, so read the room before sending it. It lands as eggplant emoji or aubergine 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 eggplant emoji
What does 🍆 mean in a text message?
A purple aubergine, and one of the best-known double meanings online. Literal in a recipe and loaded almost everywhere else. Between people who do not know each other well, it is safer to write the word.
Is 🍆 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are eggplant emoji, aubergine emoji, 🍆 meaning, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 🍆 look different on another device?
U+1F346 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 eggplant 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 eggplant emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 🍆 as emoji in Emoji 0.6, dated 2010. 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+1F346 | 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 | \1F346 | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F346} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%8D%86 | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F346
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Also known as
- eggplant emojiaubergine emoji🍆 meaning
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