🌽Ear of Corn Emoji
Basically, when someone sends you the 🌽 emoji, they’re just referencing corn! It’s a visual way to talk about food or a farm-related topic.
The 🌽 emoji represents corn, specifically a corn cob or kernels.
- Unicode
- U+1F33D
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :corn:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🌽 Ear of Corn emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
Ear of Corn emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F33D. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 9.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Facebook, Messenger
Open-source, design systems
Galaxy, One UI
Windows, Teams, Fluent
WhatsApp on Android
Slack, Discord themes
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Ear of Corn emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :corn:.
In your code
Escapes for the languages people actually paste this into. Every one of them produces the same character, and that character is U+1F33D.
How to type the 🌽 Ear of Corn emoji
No picker to hand? The ear of corn can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
Ear of Corn emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the ear of corn as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Ear of Corn emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around ear of corn for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with 🌽, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
What 🌽 means from a girl or a guy
Who sent the ear of corn and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
What 🌽 means in other countries
Mostly a plain vegetable, though “corny” gives it a mild secondary reading as cheesy or old-fashioned.
“Corny” describes jokes or content that’s cheesy rather than funny.
A corn-cob icon sometimes teases someone for being overly wholesome.
Straightforward vegetable, especially around fall content.
Before you send it: Fine for food; in reply to a joke it can gently tease it as cheesy.
What 🌽 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F33D, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
Emojis similar to the Ear of Corn emoji
Same family (food-vegetable) — often confused with ear of corn or used alongside it.
Root Vegetable
🥒Cucumber
🌶Hot Pepper
🫑Bell Pepper
🥕Carrot
🧄Garlic
🧅Onion
Collections 🌽 belongs to — every one of them is a different way people go looking for it:
🌽 vs 😂 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Ear of Corn
Code: U+1F33D · added 2010
Shortcode: :corn:
Basically, when someone sends you the 🌽 emoji, they’re just referencing corn!
Unicode name: Face with Tears of Joy
Code: U+1F602 · added 2010
Shortcode: :joy:
It usually just means something is really funny to the person sending it.
Where the 🌽 Ear of Corn emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time — U+1F33D never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
🌽 existed there as
KDDI au EB36.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Ear of Corn was approved as U+1F33D and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 🌽 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.