🍆Eggplant Emoji
Generally, when someone sends you the 🍆 emoji, they’re indicating they’re thinking about sex. It’s a direct, albeit slightly silly, way to show interest.
The 🍆 emoji represents an eggplant.
- Unicode
- U+1F346
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :eggplant:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🍆 Eggplant emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 2.
People also look for it as aubergine emoji.
Eggplant emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the eggplant has been drawn in 4 ways.
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.
Eggplant emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :eggplant:.
In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the eggplant, code point U+1F346.
How to type the 🍆 Eggplant emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
Eggplant emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 9. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Eggplant emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around eggplant 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 eggplant and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
What 🍆 means in other countries
The single most recognized phallic emoji online — Instagram once blocked its own hashtag search over how it was being used.
read as a sexual reference almost by default
reads as the vegetable only when the surrounding message is clearly about food
flagged or search-limited on certain platforms because of its sexual association
Before you send it: There's no neutral way to send it one-on-one — use it only inside an obviously food-related conversation.
What 🍆 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
The character is the same everywhere, but the artwork and the reading of it change from app to app.
Emojis similar to the Eggplant emoji
Same family (food-vegetable) — often confused with eggplant or used alongside it.
Root Vegetable
🥒Cucumber
🌶Hot Pepper
🫑Bell Pepper
🌽Ear of Corn
🥕Carrot
🧄Garlic
🧅Onion
Collections 🍆 belongs to — every one of them is a different way people go looking for it:
Where the 🍆 Eggplant 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+1F346 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 EABC, SoftBank E34A.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Eggplant was approved as U+1F346 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.