The tomato emoji is your bright, juicy stand-in for anything from pasta night hype to theatrical booing. It’s the digital version of tossing a tomato at a bad performance, but also a love letter to marinara, salsa, and garden-fresh bragging rights. Online, it pops up when someone’s take is “saucy,” when you’re serving up Caprese-core, or when you’re checking a film’s Rotten Tomatoes vibes. It even crashes the “fruit vs. veggie” debate with a smirk—science says fruit, your salad says otherwise.
On Apple/iOS, this little legend looks like a plump, glossy red globe with a star-shaped green calyx on top and a tiny stem, shown in a three-quarter view. There’s a bright highlight near the upper left, soft shading that makes it look freshly picked, and no face—just pure produce glam. You’ll see it in captions for tomato girl summer, pizza night flexes, Bloody Mary brunches, and farmer’s market hauls. Sarcastically, it’s used to boo cringe moments; playfully, it’s sent with “I bring the sauce” energy or to tease a friend who’s gone a little red-faced. Whether you’re rating a movie, spicing up a recipe drop, or making a “tomato-tomahto” pun, this emoji delivers ripe drama on demand.
Definition
A tomato is a fruit but is often thought of as a "vegetable" given they are not as sweet as many other fruits. Great on sandwiches and as a base for any pasta dish. One of the most commonly cooked with fruit. The Italians love cooking with tomatoes because they help make such great "gravy" for their pasta meals. People used to throw rotten tomatoes at people as an insult. Tomatoes are juicy and rotten tomatoes are more so, which would cause them to explode all over the person on impact. Lame jokes or bad movies are often associated with rotten tomatoes for this medieval tradition.
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Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.
This emoji was part of the proprietary / non-standardized emoji set first introduced by Japanese carriers like Softbank. These emojis became part of the Apple iPhone starting in iOS 2.2 as an unlockable feature on handsets sold in English speaking countries.
In iOS 5 / OSX 10.7, the underlying code that the Apple OS generates for this emoji was changed.
Emoji General Information
Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank)
301 of 2393
Apple/iOS Picture
Google Android Picture
Google Hangouts Picture
Twitter.com Picture
LG Emoji Picture
Samsung Emoji Picture
Phantom Open Emoji Picture
Not created yet
ASCII Conversion
"Short Code" Name
:tomato:
Keywords
Tomato, Fruit, Sauce, Italian
Unicode Category Information
Unicode Category
Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
Unicode Range
1F300–1F5FF
Unicode Subcategory
Fruit and Vegetable Symbols
Editorial Comment
Shiny red tomato with greenery on top.
Proposed Unicode Information & Notes
Unicode Category
Nature
Unicode Subcategory
Fruit Symbols
Names & Annotations
TOMATO
Symbol Information
U+1F345 proposed
Proposal Identifier
e-055
Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes
DoCoMo
[トマト]
KDDI
#436 トマト 「tomato」 U+EABB SJIS-F38F JIS-796F
Softbank
#194 #old343 トマト 「tomato」 U+E349 SJIS-F9E9
Emoji Character Encoding Data
Emoji Code Version
iOS 4 Code
UTF-8 Unicode Character(s)
UTF-8 Character Count
1
Character(s) In Input
AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS)
Decimal HTML Entity

Hexadecimal HTML Entity

Hex Code Point(s)
e349
Formal Unicode Notation
U+E349
Decimal Code Point(s)
58185
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xEE 0x8D 0x89
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
EE 8D 89
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
356 215 211
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xE349
UTF-16 Hex
e349
UTF-16 Dec
58185
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0000E349
UTF-32 Hex
E349
UTF-32 Dec
58185
Python Src
u"\uE349"
PHP Src
"\xee\x8d\x89"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uE349"
Emoji Code Version
iOS 5 - Current
UTF-8 Unicode Character(s)
🍅
UTF-8 Character Count
1
Character(s) In Input
AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS)
🍅
Decimal HTML Entity
🍅
Hexadecimal HTML Entity
🍅
Hex Code Point(s)
1f345
Formal Unicode Notation
U+1F345
Decimal Code Point(s)
127813
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xF0 0x9F 0x8D 0x85
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
F0 9F 8D 85
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
360 237 215 205
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xD83C 0xDF45
UTF-16 Hex
d83cdf45
UTF-16 Dec
55356 57157
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0001F345
UTF-32 Hex
01F345
UTF-32 Dec
127813
Python Src
u"\U0001F345"
PHP Src
"\xf0\x9f\x8d\x85"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uD83C\uDF45"
Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)
