Try Peanuts emoji
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Meaning & usage
What does the Peanuts emoji mean?
Two peanuts in their shells, for peanuts, snacks and nut allergies.
Casual, though it is also the usual emoji for nut allergy warnings.
How to use 🥜 naturally
Snacks, peanut butter and allergy warnings.
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, Peanuts 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
Added in 2016, a peanut in its ridged shell with a second one beside it. It is also the usual stand-in for a nut allergy warning in menus and messages.
- Today
How its use evolved
Snacks, peanut butter and allergy warnings.
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.
Match on and a bowl of these 🥜
Peanut butter toast again 🥜
Allergy warning, contains peanuts 🥜
When to use it
Using 🥜 clearly
Snacks, peanut butter and allergy warnings. It lands as peanut emoji or peanuts 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 peanuts emoji
What does 🥜 mean in a text message?
Two peanuts in their shells, for peanuts, snacks and nut allergies. Casual, though it is also the usual emoji for nut allergy warnings.
Is 🥜 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are peanut emoji, peanuts emoji, nut allergy emoji, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 🥜 look different on another device?
U+1F95C 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 peanuts 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 peanuts 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+1F95C | 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 | \1F95C | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F95C} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%A5%9C | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F95C
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Also known as
- peanut emojipeanuts emojinut allergy emoji
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