🫚Ginger Root Emoji
Generally, the 🫚 emoji simply means ginger. People use it to represent the spice, the root vegetable, or anything related to its flavor and potential health benefits.
The 🫚 emoji represents a ginger root.
- Unicode
- U+1FADA
- Released
- 2022
- Shortcode
- :ginger_root:
- Skin tones
- No
⚠️ Added in Emoji 15.0. On phones older than iOS 17 / Android 14 it arrives as an empty box — the character exists, the artwork does not.
What does the 🫚 Ginger Root emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 6 of them.
People also look for it as beer emoji, spice emoji.
Ginger Root emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1FADA. 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.
Ginger Root 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 :ginger_root:.
In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the ginger root, code point U+1FADA.
How to type the 🫚 Ginger Root emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1FADA when there is no key at all.
Ginger Root 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
Ginger Root emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around ginger root 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 ginger root and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
What 🫚 means in other countries
Mostly a cooking ingredient, but “ginger” is also a nickname for redheads that can land as mockery in the UK and Ireland.
Calling someone “ginger” carries a history of playground teasing (“gingerism”).
Plain ingredient, used for tea, baking, or remedies.
Before you send it: Safe for food or tea posts; avoid using it to describe a redheaded person unless you know them well.
What 🫚 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1FADA, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
Emojis similar to the Ginger Root emoji
Same family (food-vegetable) — often confused with ginger root or used alongside it.
Root Vegetable
🥒Cucumber
🌶Hot Pepper
🫑Bell Pepper
🌽Ear of Corn
🥕Carrot
🧄Garlic
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: Ginger Root
Code: U+1FADA · added 2022
Shortcode: :ginger_root:
Generally, the 🫚 emoji simply means ginger.
Unicode name: Root Vegetable
Code: U+1FADC · added 2024
Shortcode: :root_vegetable:
Basically, it’s just a cute way to represent beans.
Where the 🫚 Ginger Root emoji came from
Approved as part of Emoji 15.0, the ginger root has been on phones for years now — counting from its release, 4.
Same character every time — U+1FADA 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.
Ginger Root was approved as U+1FADA and shipped in Emoji 15.0 (2022). 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.