A cozy shout-out to Japan’s yakiimo culture, the roasted sweet potato emoji captures that toasty, caramel-y vibe you can practically smell. On Apple/iOS, it looks like a split-open, purple-skinned tuber with golden-yellow flesh, shown at a slight 3/4 angle with soft shading—no face, no garnish, just rustic edges and that “fresh from the coals” glow. It’s the visual shorthand for warm hands in cold weather, street-vendor nostalgia, and the kind of snack that makes you say, “I’ll be good after this one more bite.”
Online, people drop 🍠 to signal autumn coziness, healthy-ish dessert flexes, or “hot yet sweet” energy (yes, it doubles as a flirty compliment). It pops up in gym chats for carb-loading, in Thanksgiving threads where yams vs. sweet potatoes start family debates, and in self-deprecating “I’m a potato” memes—but like, the fancy baked version. Fans of Japanese and Korean food use it to reference yakiimo trucks, convenience store snacks, or goguma cravings; night-market stans use it for Taiwan too. It can also be a punny side-eye when someone’s getting “roasted,” though this potato is more sweet than savage.
Definition
A roasted (cooked in a dry heat) sweet potato. A tuber (root or stem of a plant) that is extremely high in potassium and overall ranks high in nutritional value. Sweet potatoes are a traditional Thanksgiving dish in the United States. Sweet potato French fries have also grown in popularity and are now sold in addition to traditional non-sweet potato French fries at many restaurants, including Burger King.
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Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.
This emoji first appeared in OSX / iOS after the iOS 5 update.
Emoji General Information
Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank)
488 of 2393
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ASCII Conversion
"Short Code" Name
:sweet_potato:
Keywords
Sweet, Potato, Potassium, Roasted, Roast
Unicode Category Information
Unicode Category
Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
Unicode Range
1F300–1F5FF
Unicode Subcategory
Food Symbols
Proposed Unicode Information & Notes
Unicode Category
Foods
Unicode Subcategory
Food Symbols
Names & Annotations
ROASTED SWEET POTATO Temporary Notes: 焼き芋: Japanese yakiimo
Symbol Information
U+1F360 proposed
Proposal Identifier
e-974
Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes
DoCoMo
[やきいも]
KDDI
#744 やきいも 「yakiimo」 U+EB3A SJIS-F3FB JIS-7A7D
Softbank
[やきいも]
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)
1f360
Formal Unicode Notation
U+1F360
Decimal Code Point(s)
127840
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xF0 0x9F 0x8D 0xA0
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
F0 9F 8D A0
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
360 237 215 240
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xD83C 0xDF60
UTF-16 Hex
d83cdf60
UTF-16 Dec
55356 57184
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0001F360
UTF-32 Hex
01F360
UTF-32 Dec
127840
Python Src
u"\U0001F360"
PHP Src
"\xf0\x9f\x8d\xa0"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uD83C\uDF60"
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