Sometimes it’s just about food. Used literally, the emoji shows up in recipe threads for eggplant parm, baba ganoush, ratatouille, and quick stir-fries, or in garden chats bragging about harvests—often tagged with a joking “vegetable meaning only!” disclaimer. It also surfaces in sarcastic posts calling out the overdone gag, like, “Congrats on discovering the world’s oldest joke, purple edition.”
On Apple/iOS, the glyph is a glossy, deep-purple eggplant with a smooth gradient and a gentle curve, topped by a bright green calyx that resembles a tiny leafy crown. It’s angled diagonally—stem to the upper left, rounded end down-right—with a soft highlight that makes it look plump and three-dimensional. No face here; just immaculate produce, instantly recognizable by its curved silhouette and crisp leaf detail.
Reputation-wise, it’s the internet’s quintessential veggie double entendre—botanically a fruit, culturally a wink. In casual chats it often subs in flirtatiously for anatomy, appearing in thirst texts, DMs, and meme replies, frequently paired with the peach or sweat droplets for, uh, emphasis. The tone can be playful, cheeky, or gloriously over-the-top; people use it ironically to roast juvenile humor or theatrically to signal “this convo just went PG-13.” Some platforms have occasionally tried to rein in spicier uses, which only amplified the meme—nothing moves faster online than a slightly forbidden purple veg.
Definition
One of the most looked up emojis, potentially due to it being called an aubergine and not an eggplant. These are very large fruit that are unusual in that they are purple in color. This particular emoji is also often used crudely to represent the male genitalia (sex organ). One look at this emoji and it is apparent why.
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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)
264 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
:eggplant:
Keywords
Eggplant, Aubergine, Fruit, Purple, Penis
Previous Names:
Aubergine
Unicode Category Information
Unicode Category
Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
Unicode Range
1F300–1F5FF
Unicode Subcategory
Fruit and Vegetable Symbols
Editorial Comment
Eggplants aren’t REALLY vegetables, they’re berries. Which isn’t that strange, considering other fruits are commonly mistaken for vegetables – like tomatoes.
Proposed Unicode Information & Notes
Unicode Category
Nature
Unicode Subcategory
Fruit Symbols
Names & Annotations
AUBERGINE = eggplant
Symbol Information
U+1F346 proposed
Proposal Identifier
e-056
Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes
DoCoMo
[ナス]
KDDI
#437 なす 「nasu」 U+EABC SJIS-F390 JIS-7970
Softbank
#195 #old344 なす 「nasu」 U+E34A SJIS-F9EA
Emoji Character Encoding Data
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)
1f346
Formal Unicode Notation
U+1F346
Decimal Code Point(s)
127814
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xF0 0x9F 0x8D 0x86
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
F0 9F 8D 86
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
360 237 215 206
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xD83C 0xDF46
UTF-16 Hex
d83cdf46
UTF-16 Dec
55356 57158
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0001F346
UTF-32 Hex
01F346
UTF-32 Dec
127814
Python Src
u"\U0001F346"
PHP Src
"\xf0\x9f\x8d\x86"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uD83C\uDF46"
Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)
