🍆 meaning at a glance
- Plain meaning: The vegetable in literal food contexts, and a widely recognized suggestive body metaphor online.
- Usual tone: Literal Or Suggestive
- Use with care: Avoid ambiguous use in professional, family, or youth-facing contexts.
- Technical type: Single-Code-Point Emoji from Emoji 0.6
What does 🍆 mean in messages?
The vegetable in literal food contexts, and a widely recognized suggestive body metaphor online.
Use 🍆 for meals, ingredients, cravings, hospitality, or plans. Unicode calls it “eggplant.” That name is a safe, neutral label when the social meaning is not clear.
For a wider view, browse food & drink emoji, use the emoji meaning finder, or read the emoji meanings in context guide.
Example messages with 🍆
Unicode construction and code points
This copyable emoji is a single-code-point emoji. It uses 1 core Unicode code point: U+1F346 aubergine.
U+1F346aubergineVersion and platform support
The eggplant emoji was introduced in Emoji 0.6 and is classified in the food vegetable subgroup. This emoji has broad support on modern platforms, but its artwork can still differ substantially between vendors.
Names, keywords, and classification
The standardized name is “eggplant.” Search terms indexed for this entry include eggplant. It belongs to Food & Drink and the food vegetable subgroup. These labels help identify and find the character; they do not prove a sender’s intended tone.
Accessibility and clear wording
For alt text, start with “eggplant.” Use clearer words when the emoji is only decoration, a metaphor, or slang.
Do not use this emoji as the only carrier of an emergency, deadline, consent decision, medical instruction, or other high-stakes message. The character is standardized, but Apple, Google, Microsoft, Samsung, and social platforms supply different artwork.