Eggplant Emoji
Copy 🍆 with one click, or read what it means and how to type it below.
What does 🍆 mean?
A purple aubergine. Its overwhelmingly dominant use online is as a phallic innuendo.
🍆 is the eggplant emoji. It belongs to the Food & Drink group, in the food vegetable set, and was approved as part of Emoji 0.6.
People also search for it as aubergine, vegetable.
How to use 🍆
Because of that association, several platforms have restricted it. Instagram has limited sexually suggestive emoji searches, and it is widely avoided in professional contexts.
Click the copy button above to put 🍆 on your clipboard, then paste it anywhere Unicode is supported — WhatsApp, Instagram, TikTok, Discord, Slack, email, or a document. On Slack, Discord and GitHub you can also type the shortcode :eggplant: directly.
Good to know
Its official Unicode name was “aubergine” until the CLDR name was updated to “eggplant”. Genuine cooking and grocery uses are now the minority.
Technical details
| Name | Eggplant |
|---|---|
| Character | 🍆 |
| Codepoint | U+1F346 |
| HTML entity | 🍆 |
| CSS code | \1F346 |
| Shortcode | :eggplant: |
| Category | Food & Drink |
| Subgroup | food vegetable |
| Emoji version | Emoji 0.6 |
| Keywords | aubergine, vegetable |