🥚Egg Emoji
Generally, the egg emoji simply means an egg. People use it when they’re discussing food, animals, or just want to add a little visual element to a text.
The 🥚 emoji represents an egg.
- Unicode
- U+1F95A
- Released
- 2016
- Shortcode
- :egg:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🥚 Egg emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
Egg emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the egg has been drawn in 3 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.
Egg emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :egg:.
In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the egg, code point U+1F95A.
How to type the 🥚 Egg emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F95A when there is no key at all.
Egg emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the egg 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
Egg emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around egg 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
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
What 🥚 means in other countries
Plain food in most places, but the character for “egg” anchors several common insults in Chinese, and “egg” is gaming slang for a clueless player.
Words for idiot or scoundrel literally use “egg,” giving it a mild edge in that language.
“Egg” is used to mock a new or clueless player.
Plain ingredient with no other reading.
Before you send it: Fine for food; skip it as a reaction to someone’s mistake in Chinese-language chat.
What 🥚 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F95A, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
🥚 vs 🍆 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Egg
Code: U+1F95A · added 2016
Shortcode: :egg:
Generally, the egg emoji simply means an egg.
Unicode name: Eggplant
Code: U+1F346 · added 2010
Shortcode: :eggplant:
Generally, when someone sends you the 🍆 emoji, they’re indicating they’re thinking about sex.
Where the 🥚 Egg emoji came from
It arrived with the 3.0 release of the standard, which dates the egg to 2016.
Same character every time — U+1F95A 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.
Egg was approved as U+1F95A and shipped in Emoji 3.0 (2016). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
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.